Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
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Such massive, early supermassive black holes have puzzled astronomers for decades. At last, we’ve finally figured out how they form.
Nothing has ever come closer than NASA’s Voyager 1, nearly 40 years ago. Last week, all that changed. “Juno will peer hundreds of miles downward into the atmosphere with its microwave […]
It’s the first day of school here in Ames, Iowa. In past years, I’ve posted the following checklist, wondering if schools have made any improvement since the previous fall. This […]
Barnard’s star, the closest singlet star system to ours, has long been a target for planet-hunters. We’ve finally confirmed it: they exist!
While death-bed utterances are more famous, baby’s first words have influenced us too.
Stockholm has been called a “unicorn factory” for its success with new businesses. A unique connection with sports philosophy helps explain why.
Seeking life beyond the Solar System, we first look to the closest star systems with Earth-like planets. Here’s why that’s not good enough.
Seven years ago, an outburst in a distant galaxy brightened and faded away. Afterward, a new supermassive black hole jet emerged, but how?
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Could studying the Oriental hornet lead to a treatment for people with alcohol use disorder?
On November 25, U.N. members will meet in South Korea to cap off a series of meetings aiming to reduce global plastic pollution.
A crowdsourced “final exam” for AI promises to test LLMs like never before. Here’s how the idea, and its implementation, dooms us to fail.
Why hasn’t matter fallen apart over billions of years? The mystery might start with protons.
“The brain is never the same from one moment to the next throughout life. Never ever.”
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
A new method of mapping migration factors in erratic movements and changing climate.
We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.
Boardroom veteran David Roche offers key strategies that can lay the groundwork for CEO success.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
Although early Earth was a molten hellscape, once it cooled, life arose almost immediately. That original chain of life remains unbroken.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
The futuristic weapon could be ready for the battlefield in 5 years.
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.