Researchers have developed the first Milky Way simulation capable of tracking over 100 billion stars for ten thousand years.

A team led by Cleveland Clinic's Kenneth Merz, PhD, and IBM's Antonio Mezzacapo, PhD, is developing quantum computing methods to simulate and study ...

High-profile news coverage that eLife papers generated in September 2025, including Asia Research News, IFL Science and the Times of India.

From shark-horses roaming sugary cores to landscapes that defy physics, Earth 2 is a masterclass in imaginative design. This ...

A team led by Cleveland Clinic’s Kenneth Merz, PhD, and IBM’s Antonio Mezzacapo, PhD, is developing quantum computing methods to simulate and study supramolecular processes that guide how entire ...

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

I truly enjoy the physics of sports. The reason why it’s better to swing a tennis racket up to get the ball to go down, and why it’s better to ...

For as long as people have looked for answers in the night sky, the idea of stepping into a machine and arriving in an ...

The diminished ability to study, monitor, forecast, warn for, and recover from more intense hurricanes and other hazards like flooding, heat waves and wildfires was—and continues to be—a source of ...

When I was 12 years old, my sister, Polly Klaas, was kidnapped from our bedroom and murdered. In the aftermath, I watched ...