A weapon that could not make the jump to the fleet has found a second life in one of the Pentagon’s hardest engineering problems. The U.S. Navy’s electromagnetic railgun is no longer drawing attention ...

Discover the science and technology behind the electromagnetic railgun, a revolutionary long-range naval weapon that uses intense electricity instead of traditional rocket fuel. This video begins with ...

How do you portray momentum in space accurately? Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein takes a look at the origins of our ...

People using South Coast Rail to get into Boston will have to make some adjustments on three weekends in April. The MBTA announced it will be performing maintenance work on several former Old Colony ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could outperform classical computers on some advanced tasks. These systems rely on qubits, the fundamental ...

Wow, time flies. Nearly 20 years ago, soon after my 50th birthday, I started making a list of what I considered mistakes my parents (and many of their generation) had made as they aged — and that I ...

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