Final Countdown If humanity continues down its current path, civilization as we know it is heading toward “irreversible collapse” in...
Scientists at CERN have reported on their first significant evidence for a process predicted by theory, paving the way for...
Ancient light from the Big Bang has revealed a precise new estimate for the universe’s age: 13.77 billion years, give...
Strange Metals For the first time, scientists are saying that so-called “strange metals” could be a bizarre new state of...
Blink Out A distant supermassive black hole seems to have restarted itself, in a cosmic glitch so striking it would...
A ringing bell vibrates simultaneously at a low-pitched fundamental tone and at many higher-pitched overtones, producing a pleasant musical sound. A...
The spines of a cactus, the proboscis of a mosquito, the quills of a porcupine: straight, pointed objects serve a...
The origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, whose detector is buried deep in the Antarctic...
Picture in your mind the delta of a river – the way the main channel splits into smaller rivulets and...
Charming Discovery Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider just discovered a brand-new kind of subatomic particle — and its composition...
No Touching A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have built a prototype to fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: An...
Neutrinos are released during nuclear fusion reactions in the Sun’s core. Detlev Van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library By catching neutrinos emanating...