Can Thousands of Smartphones Help Detect Cosmic Rays?
Your smartphone has a particle detector on it, and scientists want you to help them uncover how the universe really…
Scientists Propose a New Kind of Matter Inside the Densest Stars
You might have a pretty rigid understanding of the way stuff should look, at the most basic level. It should have a…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting an Upgrade
Today, workers at the world’s largest atom smasher are breaking ground on a performance-enhancing upgrade that will…
Physicists Are Excited About Fresh Evidence for a New 'Sterile' Fundamental Particle
Neutrinos are ghostly, mysterious shape-shifters. New evidence bolsters the existence of an even ghostlier, “sterile”…
Experiment Could Help Scientists Predict Avalanches Through Sound
It turns out that 8,000 tiny plastic disks in a rotating drum could help scientists develop a technique to forecast…
New Results Cast Doubt on Strange Dark Matter Signal
The search for dark matter—the stuff that seems to make up most of the mass in the Universe, but which is invisible to…
The Supposedly Physics-Defying NASA Thruster Doesn't Work, New Research Confirms
If you want to send something deep, deep into space, it’s impractical to load it up with lots of heavy propellant.…
A Eulogy for the Luminiferous Ether
Science is a field of progress, and in order to keep moving forward, you’ve got to break down a few walls. If you’re in…
A Recent Hurricane Shot a Bolt of Antimatter Toward Earth
When you think of an alien world, you might think of a strange, stormy place with an inhospitable environment, frequent…
Shuttered Experiment Shares New View of Ghostly Neutrino’s Shape-Shifting Behavior
Can we take a minute to appreciate just how weird neutrinos are? The second most abundant known particle in the…
Could the Large Hadron Collider Collide a Sandwich?
You’d be surprised at how many times someone has asked whether the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could collide mundane…
How NASA Will Unlock the Secrets of Quantum Mechanics Aboard the ISS
An Antares rocket launched from Virginia before sunrise this morning and is on its way to the International Space…
Scientists Calculate the Pressure Inside a Proton and It's Higher Than in a Neutron Star
The pressure inside the particles that make up every atom in the universe could be greater than the pressure inside the…
100,000 Video Game Players Helped Scientists Prove Einstein Wrong
On November 30, 2016, around 100,000 people all over the world logged online and played a video game. Together, they…
Physicists Measure Precise Value of Proton's 'Weak Charge' for the First Time
Scientists at Jefferson Lab in Virginia have precisely measured an important and innate property of the ubiquitous…
The US Will Fund Another Super-Sensitive and Expensive Dark Matter Experiment
The US Department of Energy will fund the most sensitive search yet for theorized dark matter particles. It will sit…
Scientists Find Time Crystals in Fertilizer
Scientists have created time crystals out of ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, a chemical commonly found in fertilizers…
Stephen Hawking's Final Paper Published
Stephen Hawking may have passed away in March, but his final work has now been published in a scientific journal.
NASA’s Mini Fission Reactor Could Help Humans Survive on Mars, and It Just Cleared Early Tests
NASA announced today that it has completed tests of its Kilopower portable nuclear fission reactor, a device designed…
The Earth’s Magnetic Poles Are Not About to Flip, and Here’s Why
Despite recent panic surrounding the potential reversal of our planet’s magnetic poles, new evidence suggests it’s…