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The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.

Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?

What we call “basic research” is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

In Einstein’s relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.

No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

This measurement is crucial to confirm that one of the assumptions of Einstein’s theory of gravity is valid.

There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.

Recent measurements of CERN data seem to disagree with standard-model predictions about how the Higgs boson decays, though further analysis is needed to confirm the observations.

We know the Universe is expanding, but scientists don’t agree on the rate. This is a legitimate problem.

Scientists are solving the problem of costly energy storage.

The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?

This is especially true for three key groups.

The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth.

Whole Foods Market founding CEO John Mackey synthesized the counterculture with capitalism and drove a food revolution.

Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?

Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn’t instant.

This company uses thousands of mirrors, AI, and machine learning to unlock the power of the sun.

It’s been 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. But if it’s expanding, then what is it expanding into?

The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?

The number of planets that could support life may be far greater than previously thought, a recent discovery suggests.

The answer is set to change in the year 2113, a recent estimate suggests.

As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.

In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?

On the largest scales, galaxies don’t simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don’t remain bound together.

We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.

Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.

In paint form, the world’s “whitest white” reflects so much light that surfaces become cooler than the surrounding air.

Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.

SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?