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What was the loudest sound ever recorded?
Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.
Law of 'maximal randomness' explains how broken objects shatter in the most annoying way possible
A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.
World's largest neutrino detector starts up — with incredible results
Deep underground in southern China, there is a 20,000-ton tank of liquid that can detect neutrinos. Named JUNO, the detector's first results are in — and they're very promising.
For the first time, physicists peer inside the nucleus of a molecule using electrons as a probe
A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the first time.
Science history: Russian mathematician quietly publishes paper — and solves one of the most famous unsolved conjectures in mathematics — Nov. 11, 2002
Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.
World's biggest X-ray laser discovers never-before-seen type of ice that's solid at room temperature
Researchers have unveiled ice XXI, a new form of ice that's solid at room temperatures when subjected to immense pressure.
Physicists capture rare illusion of an object moving at 99.9% the speed of light
For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical illusion called the Terrell-Penrose effect.
Einstein's relativity could rewrite a major rule about what types of planets are habitable
Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule.
Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists who discovered bizarre quantum effect on large scales
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit."
