Cosmic cartographers release a more accurate map of the universe’s matter By Laura Baisas / Feb 1, 2023
What this jellyfish-like sea creature can teach us about underwater vehicles of the future By Charlotte Hu / Nov 29, 2022
The leap second’s time will be up in 2035—and tech companies are thrilled By Harry Guinness / Nov 26, 2022
Bees can sense a flower’s electric field—unless fertilizer messes with the buzz By Lauren J. Young / Nov 9, 2022
This far-off galaxy is probably shooting us with oodles of ghostly particles By Rahul Rao / Nov 3, 2022
Here’s what the Earth’s magnetic field would sound like if we could hear it By Laura Baisas / Oct 28, 2022
Quantum entanglement theorists win Nobel Prize for loophole-busting experiments By Purbita Saha / Oct 4, 2022
After the big bang, light and electricity shaped the early universe By Eva Botkin-Kowacki / Sep 20, 2022
Farmers accidentally created a flood-resistant ‘machine’ across Bangladesh By Rahul Rao / Sep 15, 2022
Space diamonds sparkle from the wreckage of a crushed dwarf planet By Eva Botkin-Kowacki / Sep 15, 2022
It’s pretty hard to measure nothing, but these engineers are getting close By Rahul Rao / Aug 8, 2022
What engineers learned about diving injuries by throwing dummies into a pool By Rahul Rao / Jul 27, 2022
The world’s best dark matter detector whiffed on its first try By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira / Jul 8, 2022
What we learned from the Large Hadron Collider on its first day back in business By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira / Jul 6, 2022
Earth has more than 10,000 kinds of minerals. This massive new catalog describes them all. By Rahul Rao / Jul 1, 2022
Volcanic eruptions are unpredictable, but these geologists cracked the code By Rahul Rao / Jun 3, 2022
Physicist Ann Nelson broke barriers—for herself and for those who’d come after her By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / May 30, 2022
Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, but someone else won the Nobel By Lina Zeldovich / May 25, 2022
Racial and economic barriers kept Carolyn Beatrice Parker from realizing her full potential By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / May 18, 2022
From the archives: Inside the tantalizing quest to sense gravity waves By Bill Gourgey / May 18, 2022
From the archives: The discovery of electrons breaks open the subatomic era By Bill Gourgey / May 16, 2022
The souped-up Large Hadron Collider is back to take on its weightiest questions yet By Rahul Rao / May 15, 2022