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The Ring Nebula, a bright, circular planetary nebula, is created by a dying Sun-like star. After centuries, we finally know its true shape.

By focusing on the role of human experience, we may uncover new insights on the fundamental structure of reality.

Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.

From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic structures of all, everything that exists depends on two things: charge and mass.

Observations of an enormous cosmic structure, dubbed the “Big Ring,” seem to violate the Copernican principle.

One of the fundamental constants of nature, the fine-structure constant, determines so much about our Universe. Here’s why it matters.

Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.

On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?

Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They’re more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.

What are dark matter and dark energy? The large-scale structure of the cosmos encodes them both, with ESA’s Euclid mission leading the way.

Astronomers claim to have found structures so large, they shouldn’t exist. With such biased, incomplete observations, perhaps they don’t.

The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.

We normally think of dark matter as the “glue” that holds galaxies and larger structures together. But it’s so much more than that.

A photographer captured Bern’s eclectic and charming feline structures.

Whether your hair is straight, wavy, curly, or kinky isn’t just genetic in nature. It depends on the physics of your hair’s very atoms.

If you want to achieve new goals, harness your brain’s ability to change chemically, structurally, and functionally.

The structure is fully developed in humans, partially developed in chimps, and completely absent in Old World monkeys.

Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio. Here’s how some galaxies defy that rule.

By looking down, scientists are looking back in time.

The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.

Magnificent time-tested buildings are filled with lessons in resilience and stability — and the benefits for investment strategy can be huge.

Stone buildings in northern India reveal secrets of old structures that could save lives.

On the largest cosmic scales, galaxies line up along filaments, with great clusters forming at their intersection. Here’s how it took shape.

Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.

A study of spinal development took a strange turn and made a surprise discovery.

It’s 50% stronger than comparable materials used in aerospace.

NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.

A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.

Only 5% of the Universe is made of normal “stuff” like we are. Could there be dark matter or dark energy life, or even aliens, out there?

A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.