The CMZ spans almost 700 light years and contains some of the most dense molecular gas in the galaxy. Over the years, ...

In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that ...

Researchers have identified antiferromagnetism in a real icosahedral quasicrystal, reigniting interest in the quest to ...

Recent physics studies have discovered that quarks and gluons inside protons, which are subatomic positively charged ...

Conversely, a team at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, used rats to show that transplanted mitochondria stop damaged ...

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still ...

One year ago today, a total solar eclipse swept across the United States. The event was a cornerstone moment in the ...

Master artist Donato Giancola reveals how he keeps his drawing process engaging with technical hints and real-life lessons ...

Physicists have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups.

From October 2023 to December 2024 — a period encompassing two solar eclipses across the U.S., two new NASA heliophysics missions, and one spacecraft’s history-making solar flyby — NASA celebrated the ...

I’d let him sneak into my bedroom on the top floor of my family’s rambling farmhouse.... By homeroom the next morning, it was ...