Picture in your mind the delta of a river – the way the main channel splits into smaller rivulets and...
The origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, whose detector is buried deep in the Antarctic...
The spines of a cactus, the proboscis of a mosquito, the quills of a porcupine: straight, pointed objects serve a...
A ringing bell vibrates simultaneously at a low-pitched fundamental tone and at many higher-pitched overtones, producing a pleasant musical sound. A...
Blink Out A distant supermassive black hole seems to have restarted itself, in a cosmic glitch so striking it would...
Strange Metals For the first time, scientists are saying that so-called “strange metals” could be a bizarre new state of...
Ancient light from the Big Bang has revealed a precise new estimate for the universe’s age: 13.77 billion years, give...
Scientists at CERN have reported on their first significant evidence for a process predicted by theory, paving the way for...
Final Countdown If humanity continues down its current path, civilization as we know it is heading toward “irreversible collapse” in...
Scientists have found new evidence that Earth has been moving through the remains of exploded stars for at least the...
Warp Zone A team of physicists believes that it’s found a way to bring a science fiction staple to life....
From 7 billion light-years away, a pair of colliding black holes has delivered up, on a shiny gravitational wave platter,...
