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The Big Theoretical Physics Problem At The Center Of The ‘Muon g-2’ Puzzle In early April, 2021, the experimental physics community announced an enormous victory: they had measured the muon’s magnetic […]
A recent study of Iceland's Krafla volcanic caldera suggests hidden magma pools may be lurking under many of the world's volcanic systems.
Neuroplasticity is a major driver of learning and memory in humans.
Oxygen is thought to be a biomarker for extraterrestrial life, but there are at least three different ways that a lifeless planet can produce it.
How can researchers map something as complex as the human brain?
Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."
Mass determines a star’s fate… except when it doesn’t. Supernova events are common, visually spectacular astronomical cataclysms. In 1987, a supernova just ~168,000 light-years away was observed in the Large Magellanic […]
The pandemic has many people questioning whether they ever want to go back to the office.
Measuring a person's movements and poses, smart clothes could be used for athletic training, rehabilitation, or health-monitoring.
How imagining the worst case scenario can help calm anxiety.
A study on charity finds that reminding people how nice it feels to give yields better results than appealing to altruism.
Dark matter must gravitate, so why couldn’t the graviton solve it? One of the most puzzling observations about the Universe is that there isn’t enough matter — at least, matter that we know […]
The 'Monkeydactyl' was a flying reptile that evolved highly specialized adaptations in the Mesozoic Era.
Sometimes, moral lessons can be learned from blowing away zombies.
The most mental game in existence no longer requires fingers.
Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.
The Secret by Edmund Blair Leighton
Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]
The mismatch between theory and experiment is anything but certain. The most exciting moments in a scientist’s life occur when you get a result that defies your expectations. Whether you’re a […]
New data have set the particle physics community abuzz.