Dark matter, although not visible, is believed to make up most of the total mass of the universe. One theory suggests that ...

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from ...

Turning to our letters inbox, we received 61 letters from May 28 to June 5. We are starting to see increased attention to what’s happening in Congress.

Solving property taxes isn't Quantum Physics. Ohio lawmakers must stop stalling | Letter Ohio lawmakers need to quit pretending property taxes are too complicated to solve.

Regardless, Mitra and colleagues wrote that their observation “challenges our basic understanding of physics,” with practical effects extending far beyond a neat lab trick.

Readers of the L.A. Times Sports section give their thoughts and opinions about Bill Plaschke and ESPN's now-defunct show and a variety of other topics.

Amy Holden Jones’s 1983 melodrama should have established her as a major Hollywood director, but, as a female filmmaker, she faced rejection.

Two 10-year-old children found a message in a bottle — a handwritten love letter from 1959 — while recently walking near a beach in Poland. The faded note from 66 years ago was addressed to ...

‘Love Letters’ Review: A French Lesbian Couple Navigates Pregnancy in Alice Douard’s Beautifully Realized Directorial Debut Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (In Critics’ Week), May 17 ...

It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow life, and especially conscious life, to arise.

A groundbreaking experiment--reveals 'symmetry' in physics doesn't always behave as scientists once believed. Mississippi State Professor of Physics Dipangkar Dutta is a principal investigator on ...