Half the matter in the universe was missing. We found it hiding between galaxies. By Prochaska & Macquart/The Conversation / Published May 31, 2020
This video demo shows just how impressive next-gen game console graphics will be By Stan Horaczek / Published May 17, 2020
You can now buy this 25-pound fisheye camera lens that can see behind itself By Stan Horaczek / Published March 13, 2020
Samsung’s 100x zooming smartphone camera requires a fancy lens and impossibly steady hands By Stan Horaczek / Published February 12, 2020
When it comes to food, sound is as important as taste By Eleanor Cummins / Published February 6, 2020
These infrared images show just how alive butterflies’ wings are By Molly Glick / Published February 5, 2020
A food scientist breaks down the thermodynamics between marshmallows and hot chocolate By Molly Glick / Published January 13, 2020
We really don’t know when Betelgeuse is going to explode By Rachel Feltman / Published December 26, 2019
Scientists are one step closer to solving the mystery of MLB’s home run surge By Lauren Theisen / Published December 19, 2019
There’s a chance the black hole at the center of our galaxy is actually a wormhole By Charlie Wood / Published October 25, 2019
A new take on creating an invisibility shield borrows from classical physics By Jess Romeo / Published October 24, 2019
Here’s how life could thrive on a planet orbiting a black hole—and other alternative suns By Charlie Wood / Published October 18, 2019
That groundbreaking photo of a black hole has raised some mighty big questions By Neel V. Patel / Published October 11, 2019
NASCAR may be the fastest road to learning about physics By Christine Helms/The Conversation / Published August 15, 2019
Dark matter has never killed anyone, and scientists want to know why By Neel V. Patel / Published July 26, 2019
What’s really behind baseball’s recent home run surge By Brian J. Love and Michael L. Burns/The Conversation / Published July 23, 2019
Sorry, even Mariah Carey can’t twist bottle caps off with her voice By Eleanor Cummins / Published July 9, 2019
How to stare at your phone all day without messing up your body By Eleanor Cummins / Published June 24, 2019
Why would you want a $10k camera with 100 megapixels anyway? By Stan Horaczek / Published May 24, 2019
Smartphone camera flashes are terrible because they don’t really flash By Stan Horaczek / Published April 17, 2019
Quantum teleportation is real, but it’s not what you think By Matthew R. Francis / Published March 30, 2019
Trek’s new bike helmet mimics your brain’s protective fluid By Claire Maldarelli / Published March 19, 2019
Gravitational waves could solve a cosmological crisis within five years—or shake physics to its core By Charlie Wood / Published November 10, 2018
The physics Nobel Prize goes to high-tech lasers and honors the first woman in 55 years By Charlie Wood / Published October 2, 2018
This ocean ‘invisibility cloak’ makes waves bigger and better By Charlie Wood / Published September 26, 2018
Mathematicians finally found the perfect bubble blowing formula By Neel V. Patel / Published September 5, 2018
Something called ‘squeezed light’ is about to give us a closer look at cosmic goldmines By Matthew R. Francis / Published September 4, 2018
We may finally know where the ‘ghost particles’ that surround us come from By Neel V. Patel / Published July 12, 2018
The complex physics behind bending it like a World Cup player By Dyani Sabin / Published July 9, 2018
How the new World Cup ball was designed to not influence the games By Dyani Sabin / Published June 18, 2018
We may finally know how Easter Island’s giant statues got their jaunty stone hats By Kat Eschner / Published June 5, 2018
The universe may be a giant video game, but it certainly isn’t Pac-Man By Kat Eschner / Published May 3, 2018
In photos: a rare glimpse inside the heart of a quantum computer By Corinne Iozzio / Published April 24, 2018
It’s rude to ask a galaxy’s age. Luckily, its shape offers a clue. By Charles Q. Choi / Published April 24, 2018
Stephen Hawking, a man synonymous with the mysteries of the cosmos, is dead at 76 By Mary Beth Griggs / Published March 14, 2018
Stephen Hawking thinks he knows what happened before the beginning of time By Rachel Feltman / Published March 2, 2018
Razor-sharp snowflakes are wreaking havoc on Olympians’ skis By Erin Blakemore / Published February 22, 2018
It turns out our galaxy isn’t as special as we thought By Mary Beth Griggs / Published February 2, 2018
That flickering ‘alien megastructure’ star is probably just dusty By Mary Beth Griggs / Published January 4, 2018
Good news! We’re probably not living in a computer simulation. By Kendra Pierre-Louis / Published October 9, 2017
Three men just won a Nobel Prize for the work of more than a thousand people By Mark D. Kaufman / Published October 3, 2017
The detection of ripples in the fabric of spacetime just won a Nobel Prize By Sara Chodosh / Published October 3, 2017
Strange signals were just spotted coming from a distant galaxy By Mary Beth Griggs / Published August 31, 2017
The terrifying way fire ants take advantage of hurricane floods By Ellen Airhart / Published August 29, 2017
Mayweather and McGregor’s 8-ounce boxing gloves have started a science fight By Stan Horaczek / Published August 24, 2017