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The biggest, brightest galaxies are the easiest to spot, but the tiniest ones teach us about how the Milky Way assembled and grew up!
When the average person has a "theory," they're just guessing. But for a scientist, a theory is the pinnacle of what we can achieve.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin's work: 40 years later.
Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they're doing.
Science news presents a flood of breakthroughs and discoveries that promise to change our lives. They rarely do.
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.
Pessimism reigned supreme.
Up until 2002, we thought that the heaviest stable element was bismuth: #83 on the periodic table. That's absolutely no longer the case.
At the turn of the millennium, a physicist fooled the global scientific community with the greatest discovery that never existed.
With hundreds of billions of stars burning bright, some galaxies are already dead. Their inhabitants might not know it, but we're certain.
If light can't be bent by electric or magnetic fields (and it can't), then how do the Zeeman and Stark effects split atomic energy levels?
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
A surprising JWST discovery around Fomalhaut has a different, superior explanation: not a great dust cloud, but a mere background object.
The classic picture of Jupiter's great rocky core might be entirely wrong.
The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST's eyes, astronomers found so much more.
Not everything that claims to be "scientific" actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.
From grave robbing to giving your own body to science.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
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Is science close to explaining everything about our Universe? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder reacts.
If stars don't go supernova at first, they can get a second chance after becoming a white dwarf. But can their companions survive?
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here's why we don't buy it.
Far from practicing witchcraft, the experimentation of medieval alchemists helped bring about the Scientific Revolution.
There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
It isn't just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
Human beings are tiny creatures compared to the 92 billion light-year wide observable Universe. How can we comprehend such large scales?
In 1920, astronomers debated the nature of the Universe. The results were meaningless until years later, when the key evidence arrived.