01.30.2012 Some are visible only after sunset, none are created by seeding, and one chewed on a fighter pilot for half an hour before spitting him out, alive.
Humanity’s guide to the next billion trillion years. (Wormhole kit not included.) 01.25.2012
Runaway subatomic particles seem to be breaking the cosmic speed limit. If the results hold up, physicists have some explaining to do. 01.09.2012
Researchers luck out, getting a front row seat for stellar annihilation. 01.09.2012
Eight-legged molecule may be the strangest--and biggest--new quantum phenom on the block. 01.09.2012
Scientists catch particle only created once every 28 billion times nuclei are smashed together. 01.09.2012
Why do riderless bikes stay upright? What we thought was wrong. 01.09.2012
The Large Hadron Collider is supposed to solve the top mysteries in physics. That has not happened yet. Joseph Lykken explains why not, and what to do next. 01.09.2012
Astronomers glimpse stellar creation. 01.09.2012
The Illinois-based Tevatron closes after an auspicious--but all too short--career. 01.09.2012
The quickest way to climb aboard a plane may be the least ordered. 01.09.2012
Satellite measures how much Earth warps space-time. 01.09.2012
NASA has begun testing its high-powered new engine. 01.09.2012
Nature did it in 13 billion years. Computer does it in 9 months. 01.09.2012
At Caltech, Ahmed Zewail is a world-class chemist. In Egypt, he is a national hero. 01.03.2012
It has a variety of potential uses—potential buyers have discussed using the tunnels for energy generation, secure storage, and mushroom farming—and is definitely one-of-a-kind. 12.02.2011
How it started, how it's like solitaire, how to fold it, and how it ends. 11.30.2011
Physicists scour heaven, Earth, and everywhere in between for the mysterious particles that hold together galaxies and sculpt the universe. 11.28.2011
Physicists stalk a delicate “fifth force” of nature, hidden within the interstices of the other four. What they have not found is even more amazing. 11.04.2011
Could our universe be just one of a multitude, each with its own reality? It may sound like fiction, but there is hard science behind this outlandish idea. 10.18.2011
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