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Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here's why that's an extraordinary feat.
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
Some ozone experts seriously doubt the findings.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
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The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make "beams" out of them?
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here's why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn't how it will end.
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way's central black hole looks like.
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Our world would be impossible without quantum mechanics — but we still don’t have a narrative of how it works.
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Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.
The Standard Model may or may not be in trouble, but particle physics definitely needs saving. Here's what the new LHC can do.
Realism in science cannot be completely unmoored from human experience. Otherwise, realism ends up tortured with unreal paradoxes.
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter recently captured images that could help scientists better under the mysterious physics of our Sun.
Single objects rarely change the course of an entire scientific field. Distant object GNz7q, a galaxy-quasar hybrid, might do exactly that.
Fermilab's TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here's what doesn't add up.
Multiple lines of evidence — physical, chemical, and biological — must converge for scientists to conclude that alien life has been found.
Despite all that we've learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could "God" be the answer?
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it's passing through us constantly. But how much?
Einstein's theories of relativity faced fierce opposition. One critic claimed he was attempting to subvert the scientific method.
When reading critiques that inflate the uncertainty of science, ask these 7 questions.
In terms of the planets we've discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
Developing an awareness of and an appreciation for science is what we all truly need, not what we've been doing.
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.