The most distant galaxy we’ve ever discovered might have closely followed the Big Bang By Ella Weaver / Published April 7, 2022
This subatomic particle’s surprising heft has weighty consequences By Rahul Rao / Published April 7, 2022
Manipulating atomic motion could make metals stronger and bendier By Rahul Rao / Published March 18, 2022
Meet the mysterious particle that’s the dark horse in dark matter By Leto Sapunar / Published February 25, 2022
Rare ‘upside-down stars’ are shrouded in the remains of cannibalized suns By Leto Sapunar / Published February 19, 2022
The most precise atomic clocks ever are proving Einstein right—again By Rahul Rao / Published February 17, 2022
Inside the high-powered process that could recycle rare earth metals By Rahul Rao / Published February 11, 2022
Our universe probably isn’t special enough to be in a multiverse By Leto Sapunar / Published February 10, 2022
Olympic sledders fly down the ice with a few slick tricks By John Eric Goff/The Conversation / Published February 6, 2022
The future might be filled with squishy robots printed to order By Rahul Rao / Published February 5, 2022
Ice doesn’t always melt the same way—and these visuals prove it By Shi En Kim / Published February 4, 2022
Scientists found a fleeting particle from the universe’s first moments By Rahul Rao / Published January 28, 2022
The James Webb telescope could help solve the mystery of dark matter By Leto Sapunar / Published January 7, 2022
Physicists close in on the exceedingly short life of the Higgs boson By Rahul Rao / Published December 12, 2021
Astronomers may have found a galaxy that formed without dark matter By Leto Sapunar / Published December 9, 2021
Physicists just gifted us ‘quantum spin liquid,’ a weird new state of matter By Rahul Rao / Published December 2, 2021
What makes one pair of headphones better than another? By Timothy Hsu/The Conversation / Published November 26, 2021
IBM’s latest quantum chip breaks the elusive 100-qubit barrier By Charlotte Hu / Published November 18, 2021
Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete By Elana Spivack / Published November 17, 2021
Physicists want to create energy like stars do. These two ways are their best shot. By Rahul Rao / Published November 15, 2021
When light flashes for a quintillionth of a second, things get weird By Rahul Rao / Published November 8, 2021
Amazon’s venture into the bizarre world of quantum computing has a new home base By Charlotte Hu / Published October 26, 2021
Chaos is more predictable than you think By Mitchell Newberry/The Conversation / Published October 8, 2021
This year’s Physics Nobel honors work on the complex systems underlying climate change By Elana Spivack / Published October 5, 2021
A centuries-old magic trick is helping us make holograms we can feel By Ravinder Dahiya/The Conversation / Published September 20, 2021
The technology behind Shrinky Dinks can make better robots By Rahul Rao / Published September 20, 2021
We finally have a working supersolid. Here’s why that matters. By Rahul Rao / Published August 23, 2021
Scientists genetically engineered prehistoric proteins to detect diseases By Rahul Rao / Published August 16, 2021
What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them? By Rahul Rao / Published August 13, 2021
Are all track lanes created equal when it comes to winning gold? By David R. Munro/The Conversation / Published July 26, 2021
The world’s worst conductor could be a game changer in the climate crisis By Rahul Rao / Published July 23, 2021
The Crab Nebula’s electron launcher is so powerful, it almost shouldn’t exist By Charlie Wood / Published July 9, 2021
We finally know why the Betelgeuse star dimmed—and it’s not what you think By Charlie Wood / Published June 18, 2021
How sticky balls give major league pitchers an advantage By John Eric Goff/The Conversation / Published June 16, 2021
Understanding the weird Biden-Carter photo could help you take better selfies By Stan Horaczek / Published May 4, 2021
Warp speed space travel just got a tiny bit more realistic By Mario Borunda/The Conversation / Published April 26, 2021
Callaway designed its Supersoft golf balls to spin, but not break By Stan Horaczek / Published April 2, 2021
Nerf’s newest blaster shoots spinning balls for dramatic curves By Stan Horaczek / Published January 27, 2021
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has one star that always rises to the top By Erik Olsen / Published November 25, 2020
How scientists keep ancient shipwrecks from crumbling into dust By Sara Kiley Watson / Published November 2, 2020
How one Turkish astronomer discovered a completely new kind of galaxy By Science Friday / Published October 29, 2020
These boulders seemed to move on their own—until one scientist figured them out By Eleanor Cummins / Published October 29, 2020
Glimpse the gold mine where scientists are searching for dark matter By Ryan Bradley / Published October 27, 2020
The Nobel Prize in physics honors insights on black holes—including the one in our own galaxy By Jessica Boddy / Published October 6, 2020
This DIY-er found a boat he liked in the PopSci archives. Then he built it. By PopSci Staff / Published August 9, 2020
Hitting a baseball is the hardest skill to pull off in sports. Here’s why. By Eric Rynston-Lobel / Published August 6, 2020