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Physics Reveals How to Break Spaghetti Cleanly In Two
Our collective culinary nightmare is over
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Scientists Give New Particle Accelerator the Thumbs Up
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine endorses the $1 billion Electron-Ion Collider
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Check Out These Awesome New 3D, Full-Color X-Rays
The scanner uses technology developed for the Large Hadron Collider
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The Scientific Quest For the Perfect S’more
A trial by fire
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Researchers Find More Evidence for the Higgs Boson
Analysis of years of data from the Large Hadron Collider shows evidence the particle decays into bottom quarks
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Neanderthals Hunted in Groups, One More Strike Against the Dumb Brute Myth
The skeletons of deer killed 120,000 years ago offer more evidence of cooperative behavior and risk-taking among our hominin relatives
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The Physics Behind a Leaky Faucet’s Maddening ‘Plink’
Microphones and high-speed cameras show that what happens when a water droplet hits water is surprisingly complicated
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The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting A Huge Power Boost
A multi-year upgrade will lead to up to 10 times the collisions, and perhaps the discovery of mysterious new particles
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A Message From Stephen Hawking Is On Its Way to a Black Hole
After his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey, a musical composition and “message of hope” were broadcast toward 1A 0620-00, the nearest black hole
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‘HALO’ Makes Art Out of Subatomic Particle Collisions at Art Basel
The site-specific installation by British artist duo Semiconductor revisits the universe’s first moments
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How Newton, Goethe, an Ornithologist and a Board Game Designer Helped Us Understand Color
A new exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum explores the kaleidoscope of figures who shaped color theory
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The Case for Charles Dickens, the Science Communicator
A new exhibition dives into the Victorian novelist’s passion for science
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When Albert Einstein Visited Japan
As he traveled through Asia, including a trip to Palestine, the brilliant scientist discovered much he didn’t understand
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If a Cosmic Bubble Destroys the Universe, Scientists Now Know When It’ll Happen
Don’t panic yet; the end won’t be for at least 10 octodecillion years, if it happens at all
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The Center of the Milky Way May Be Chock-Full of Black Holes
Researchers spotted about a dozen black holes lurking at our galactic center—and there may be up to 10,000 more
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Scientists Thought All Galaxies Had Dark Matter, but They Just Found One Without It
The find defies the assumption that the mysterious matter is necessary for galaxy formation
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The Math Behind the Perfect Free Throw
A basketball computer program simulates millions of trajectories in search of the ideal shot
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How It All Began: A Colleague Reflects On the Remarkable Life of Stephen Hawking
The physicist probed the mysteries of black holes, expanded our understanding of the universe and captured the world’s imagination, says Martin Rees
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Order Makes Cities Easy to Navigate—It May Also Make Them Hotter
Physics and statistics can describe how building patterns relate to cities’ tendency to hold heat
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This Low-Cost, Graphene Device Could Help Monitor a Baby’s Health
Physicists have developed a graphene-based liquid that can sense tiny changes in breathing and heart rate
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