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...
A 50-year-old theory that began as speculation about how an alien civilization could use a black hole to generate energy...
Quantum Teleportation A team of researchers claim to have achieved quantum teleportation using individual electrons. Quantum teleportation, or quantum entanglement,...
Splitting Off For the first time, scientists have found that a bizarre subatomic “quasiparticle,” called a skyrmion, that’s capable of reproducing...
Even after decades of searching, scientists have never seen a particle of dark matter. Evidence for the substance’s existence is...
Atom Soup A team of physicists just managed to entangle a record-breaking 15 trillion atoms. The unusual feat is a...
A team of scientists says they’ve found a way to quantitatively measure consciousness, a discovery that could have huge implications...
