Syracuse native and retired NASA astronaut Dr. Jeannette Epps has joined the South Side Community Growth Foundation Board of Directions.

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold, dark craters near the ...

On Dec. 25, 2002, Lewis Kay was in his lab at the University of Toronto, devising new ways to observe the invisible machinery of life. Or trying to, at least. The large molecules Kay has spent his ...

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, that distinction gets a bit murky.

This mind-bending relativity illusion has never been seen—until now ...

The center looks to add three new labs in Science Hall and introduce a degree plan for undergraduate and graduate students.

“For the last 20 years, people believed that the cosmological constant is positive, and the universe will expand forever,” says Tye, a professor emeritus at Cornell. A positive constant acts like a ...

The shape of the cosmos depends on a balance of two competing forces: the pull of gravity and the expansion driven by dark ...

A physicist proposes that the universe is not empty space, but is a viscous fluid, fueling the expansion and contraction we see.

Supermassive black holes rarely travel alone. Most large galaxies hide one at the center, and when galaxies collide, the two ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...