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It’s Official: Gravitational Waves Have Been Found

By Sophie Bushwick

/ Feb 11, 2016

You Have Basic Physics To Thank For Your Brain’s Funky Folds

By Claire Maldarelli

/ Feb 4, 2016

Quantum Chess Is Coming To The Real World

By Sophie Bushwick

/ Feb 2, 2016

Arctic Report: What Are the Northern Lights, Really?

By Breanna Draxler

/ Jan 28, 2016

Watch Paul Rudd Battle Stephen Hawking In Quantum Chess

By Sophie Bushwick

/ Jan 28, 2016

The Science Behind Why Spider-Man Is Too Large To Cling To Walls

By Mary Beth Griggs

/ Jan 20, 2016

Researchers Propose Method For Teleporting Creatures’ Memories

By Lindsey Kratochwill

/ Jan 16, 2016

What Are Gravitational Waves And Why Do They Matter?

By Sophie Bushwick

/ Jan 13, 2016

Is Multi-Millionfold Speedup Proof That Google Is Really Quantum Computing?

By Sophie Bushwick

/ Dec 11, 2015

LHC Re-creates First Moments Of The Universe And Sets New Energy Record

By Mary Beth Griggs

/ Nov 26, 2015

A Chocolate Fountain Can Introduce Kids To Complex Physics

By Mary Beth Griggs

/ Nov 25, 2015

The Physics Of Non-Newtonian Goo Could Save Astronauts’ Lives

By Lydia Chain

/ Nov 24, 2015

Inside The Z Machine, Where Scientists Turned Hydrogen Into Metal

By Matt Giles

/ Nov 13, 2015

Why Do Stars Really Twinkle?

By Daniel Engber

/ Nov 9, 2015

Breakthrough Prize Honors Scientists Working on Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Neutrinos, And More

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/ Nov 9, 2015

Why Dunes Sometimes ‘Burp’ And ‘Boom’

By Mary Beth Griggs

/ Oct 27, 2015

The Science Behind Popping A Balloon

By Mary Beth Griggs

/ Oct 20, 2015

5 Things To Know About The Search For Dark Matter

By

/ Oct 9, 2015

How Physicists Quantum Teleported Information Over 62 Miles

By Devin Powell

/ Sep 25, 2015

Our Breakfast With Neil deGrasse Tyson

By Steph Yin

/ Sep 19, 2015

Submit Your Questions For Our Breakfast With Neil deGrasse Tyson Here

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/ Sep 17, 2015

What Is The Sound Of No Sounds Happening?

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Sep 15, 2015

Scientists Add Ingredient To Make Ice Cream Melt Slower

By Alexandra Ossola

/ Sep 1, 2015

The Race To Prove ‘Spooky’ Quantum Connection May Have a Winner

By Devin Powell

/ Aug 29, 2015

Science Finally Understands How Cereal Gets Soggy

By Alexandra Ossola

/ Jul 31, 2015

What’s The Point Of A Quantum Computer?

By Rafi Letzter

/ May 5, 2015

How It Works: The Large Hadron Collider

By

/ Apr 16, 2015

What Does The Higgs Boson Sound Like? [Video]

By Lindsey Kratochwill

/ Apr 15, 2015

Physicists Figure Out Why Honey Falls In Twists

By Mary Beth Griggs

/ Apr 1, 2015

Alien Spaceships Traveling At Near Light Speeds Will Still Be Visible

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Mar 25, 2015

Pie Sci: A Few Questions For A Leading Pie Scientist

By Jen Schwartz

/ Mar 13, 2015

Light Photographed As A Wave And A Particle For The First Time

By Alexandra Ossola

/ Mar 3, 2015

3 Tech Futures A Particle Accelerator On Long Island Could Bring Us

By Mary Beth Griggs

/ Feb 12, 2015

Fantastic Physics Valentines You Can Use To Woo

By Francie Diep

/ Feb 12, 2015

Scientists Slow Down The Speed Of Light As It Travels Through Air

By Lydia Ramsey

/ Jan 23, 2015

Football Physics And The Science Of Deflategate

By Chad Orzel

/ Jan 23, 2015

What To Expect In 2015: General Relativity Gets Put To The Test

By Corey S. Powell

/ Jan 7, 2015

Watch Raindrops Make Asteroid-Like Collisions [Slo-Mo Video]

By Sarah Fecht

/ Dec 30, 2014

That Time The Feds Built A Deluxe Atom Cannon In Palo Alto

By Rafi Letzter

/ Dec 4, 2014

The Science And Engineering Of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Balloons

By Francie Diep

/ Nov 26, 2014

Geophysicists Are Turning Peanut Butter Into Diamond Gemstones

By Sarah Fecht

/ Nov 10, 2014

Shipping Containers Could Relay Quantum Information Across Oceans

By Mary Beth Griggs

/ Oct 28, 2014

Chemists Find A New Chemical Bond

By Francie Diep

/ Oct 27, 2014

Physics Explains Ingrown Toenails

By Sarah Fecht

/ Oct 21, 2014

This App Turns Your Phone Into A Cosmic Ray Detector

By Francie Diep

/ Oct 13, 2014

Why A Blue LED Is Worth A Nobel Prize

By Francie Diep

/ Oct 7, 2014

Evidence Found Of A Particle That Is Its Own Antiparticle

By Francie Diep

/ Oct 2, 2014

Space Combat Won’t Look At All Like ‘Star Wars’

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Sep 30, 2014

Spooky Action In Threes: Physicists Entangle Three Particles Of Light

By Francie Diep

/ Sep 17, 2014

Light Forms Crystal-Like Structure On Computer Chip

By Rafi Letzter

/ Sep 17, 2014

How A Guy Who Failed Physics Is Reinventing Higher Education

By Brooke Borel

/ Sep 11, 2014

Quantum Mechanics Saves Grandfathers From Time Travelers

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Sep 11, 2014

Fall Into A Trance Watching This Pendulum Wave Of Bowling Balls

By Francie Diep

/ Sep 8, 2014

Click Your Way To Discovery In CERN’s ‘Particle Clicker’ Game

By Kelsey D. Atherton

/ Aug 11, 2014

The Newest, Strictest Test Of A Quantum Computer Yet

By Francie Diep

/ Jun 19, 2014

How To Build A Better World Cup Ball

By David Cassilo

/ Jun 2, 2014

How To Prove That Light Can Be Converted Into Matter

By Devon Maloney

/ May 28, 2014

Blog Post Questions Recent Big Bang Discovery

By Francie Diep

/ May 14, 2014

‘Indisputable’ Proof Of A New Four-Quark Particle

By Francie Diep

/ Apr 10, 2014

Super-Intense Laser Stretches Farther Than Ever

By Francie Diep

/ Apr 3, 2014

‘Huge’ Physics Finding Supports Big Bang Theory

By Douglas Main

/ Mar 17, 2014

Gravitational Waves: Einstein Was Right, Again, Maybe

By Emily Gertz

/ Mar 15, 2014

Scientists Make Largest Quark, Solving A 20-Year Mystery

By Douglas Main

/ Feb 25, 2014

Fermilab’s Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles

By Francie Diep

/ Feb 11, 2014

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