The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

EDUCATION Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon has indicated that Jamaican students who were scheduled to sit Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) external examinations in the January and May-June 2026 ...

The Ministry of Education today issued a clarification on the CXC criteria in the declaration of the top CSEC student at this year’s examination. The ministry’s clarification follows: ...

REGISTRAR and chief executive officer of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Dr Wayne Wesley says the entity is working in tandem with Jamaica’s Ministry of Education to craft “a relief plan” for ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all. Whether the universe will "end" at all is ...

A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Center for Quantum Optical Technologies at the Center of New Technologies, University of Warsaw has developed a new method for measuring elusive terahertz ...

The speed of light has been one of science’s most trusted markers of stability. For more than a century, the idea that light moves through space at a constant speed has supported some of physics’ most ...

Recent developments in trapped-ion platforms are opening towards quantum simulation of chemical dynamics. Here, the authors demonstrate independent control of spin-phonon coupling and reservoir ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...

Matter is made up of small particles called atoms. Atoms can exist on their own or together as molecules. Atoms are very small and around 100,000,000 of them end to end would measure 1 centimetre.

We think of matter as being made up from three main particles – protons, neutrons and electrons. However the full set of matter particles is the fermions. This has a much greater variety of sub-atomic ...