After the big bang, light and electricity shaped the early universe By Eva Botkin-Kowacki / Sep 20, 2022
Farmers accidentally created a flood-resistant ‘machine’ across Bangladesh By Rahul Rao / Sep 15, 2022
Space diamonds sparkle from the wreckage of a crushed dwarf planet By Eva Botkin-Kowacki / Sep 15, 2022
It’s pretty hard to measure nothing, but these engineers are getting close By Rahul Rao / Aug 8, 2022
What engineers learned about diving injuries by throwing dummies into a pool By Rahul Rao / Jul 27, 2022
The world’s best dark matter detector whiffed on its first try By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira / Jul 8, 2022
What we learned from the Large Hadron Collider on its first day back in business By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira / Jul 6, 2022
Earth has more than 10,000 kinds of minerals. This massive new catalog describes them all. By Rahul Rao / Jul 1, 2022
Volcanic eruptions are unpredictable, but these geologists cracked the code By Rahul Rao / Jun 3, 2022
Physicist Ann Nelson broke barriers—for herself and for those who’d come after her By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / May 30, 2022
Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, but someone else won the Nobel By Lina Zeldovich / May 25, 2022
Racial and economic barriers kept Carolyn Beatrice Parker from realizing her full potential By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / May 18, 2022
From the archives: Inside the tantalizing quest to sense gravity waves By Bill Gourgey / May 18, 2022
From the archives: The discovery of electrons breaks open the subatomic era By Bill Gourgey / May 16, 2022
The souped-up Large Hadron Collider is back to take on its weightiest questions yet By Rahul Rao / May 15, 2022
Edward A. Bouchet paved a path for generations of Black students By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / May 9, 2022
These levitating beads can teach physicists about spinning celestial objects By Lauren J. Young / Apr 29, 2022
The most distant galaxy we’ve ever discovered might have closely followed the Big Bang By Ella Weaver / Apr 7, 2022
Rare ‘upside-down stars’ are shrouded in the remains of cannibalized suns By Leto Sapunar / Feb 19, 2022
Olympic sledders fly down the ice with a few slick tricks By John Eric Goff / The Conversation / Feb 6, 2022
Physicists just gifted us ‘quantum spin liquid,’ a weird new state of matter By Rahul Rao / Dec 2, 2021
What makes one pair of headphones better than another? By Timothy Hsu/The Conversation / Nov 26, 2021
Physicists want to create energy like stars do. These two ways are their best shot. By Rahul Rao / Nov 15, 2021