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A Decades-Long Quest Reveals New Details of Antimatter

It often goes unmentioned that protons, the positively charged matter particles at the center of atoms, are part antimatter. We learn in school that...

The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding

Ever since astronomers reached a consensus in the 1980s that most of the mass in the universe is invisible—that “dark matter” must glue galaxies...

Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener

Normally, the shrubs and grasses of the tundra trap snow in the winter, and keep it from blowing around the landscape. But as temperatures...

Geometry Reveals How the World Is Made of Cubes

At first, “everything seemed to work,” Jerolmack said. Domokos’ mathematics had predicted that rock shards should average out to cubes. An increasing number of...

Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction Just After the Big Bang

In a secluded laboratory buried under a mountain in Italy, physicists have re-created a nuclear reaction that happened between two and three minutes after...

These Rare Seeds Escaped Syria’s War—to Help Feed the World

But, overall, it worked: Over the past five years, they’ve successfully grown more than 100,000 of their original accessions, shipping 81,000 newly grown samples...

Deep Neural Networks Are Helping Decipher How Brains Work

In the winter of 2011, Daniel Yamins, a postdoctoral researcher in computational neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would at times toil past...

Scientists Discover the First Room-Temperature Superconductor

A team of physicists in New York has discovered a material that conducts electricity with perfect efficiency at room temperature—a long-sought scientific milestone. The...

Computer Scientists Break the ‘Traveling Salesperson’ Record

When Nathan Klein started graduate school two years ago, his advisers proposed a modest plan: to work together on one of the most famous,...

See Earth Transform Like You’re a Time-Traveling Astronaut

Those lucky enough to have spent time aboard the International Space Station report a singular feeling while watching the Earth rush by below: It’s...

At Last, Alchemy Arrives in a Burst of Light—From Lasers

Researchers have shown how to effectively transform one material into another using a finely shaped laser pulse.

Is Dark Matter Just Black Holes Made During the Big Bang?

Black holes are like sharks. Elegant, simple, scarier in the popular imagination than they deserve, and possibly lurking in deep, dark places all around...

Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics

In the 1940s, trailblazing physicists stumbled upon the next layer of reality. Particles were out, and fields—expansive, undulating entities that fill space like an...

Mathematicians May Have Figured Out How ‘Stone Forests’ Form

There are many wondrous geologic formations in nature, from Giant's Causeway in Ireland to Castleton Tower in Utah, and the various processes by...

What’s Causing the Mass Bird Die-Off in the Southwest?

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Thousands of migrating birds have inexplicably died in the...

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