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Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
You are an energy field — but not the “chakras” or “auras” kind.
Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
New studies stretch the boundaries of physics, achieving quantum entanglement in larger systems.
In our Universe, matter is made of particles, while antimatter is made of antiparticles. But sometimes, the physical lines get real blurry.
The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there’s one piece of evidence we can’t ignore that shows otherwise.
Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.
The LHC has a long, productive life ahead of it. An upgraded version, called the “High Luminosity LHC,” will be available in 2028.
For a substantial fraction of a second after the Big Bang, there was only a quark-gluon plasma. Here’s how protons and neutrons arose.
If stars don’t go supernova at first, they can get a second chance after becoming a white dwarf. But can their companions survive?
We’ve fooled ourselves before with galaxies that look just like this one. The evidence we have simply isn’t strong enough.
Chemical energy, where electrons transition in atoms, powers the reactions we see. But two other types hold more promise than all the rest.
The Universe certainly formed stars, at one point, for the very first time. But we haven’t found them yet. Here’s what everyone should know.
Data scientists first gained prominence by making us click on ads — now the profession spans a multiverse.
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
For every proton, there were over a billion others that annihilated away with an antimatter counterpart. So where did all that energy go?
Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.
We take for granted that time is real. But what if it’s only an illusion, and a relative illusion at that? Does time even exist?
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
The hunt for the elusive particles continues.
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
The second law of thermodynamics is an inviolable law of reality. Here’s what everyone should know about closed, open, and isolated systems.
The expanding Universe, in many ways, is the ultimate out-of-equilibrium system. After enough time passes, will we eventually get there?
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
If the evolution of the Universe is a movie, what happens when we rewind it all the way backward?
The smartest person in the world was Isaac Newton, a true polymath whose brilliance never has been, nor ever will be, surpassed.