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Computer simulation of the cosmic web: glowing filaments of gas and galaxies wrap around dark, nearly empty voids across more than 50 million light years

24/12/2024
Cosmology & Astrophysics

What Is the Void? Exploring the Dark Heart of Cosmology

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko photographed by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft from 28.6 km, with faint jets of gas and dust rising from its neck

21/12/2024
Science

Where Did Earth’s Water Actually Come From? New Theories Explained

Replica skulls of human ancestors, including Homo habilis, Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis, mounted along a timeline at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum in Singapore

21/12/2024
Opinions

Human Evolution: Predicting Human Form in 10,000 Years

J. Robert Oppenheimer, seated on the left, laughing with members of the State Department's atomic energy consultants in the lobby of the Oak Ridge guest house, Tennessee, in February 1946

17/11/2024
Quantum physics

J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Architect of the Atomic Age

Macro view inside an opened laptop hard disk drive, with the read and write head on its actuator arm resting over the mirror-like platter

06/10/2024
Lifestyle

Lost Bitcoin: 5 Stories of Crypto Millionaires Who Lost It All

Particle tracks in the 30-inch hydrogen bubble chamber at Fermilab around 1973: a 300 GeV proton collides with a proton in the liquid hydrogen and produces 26 charged particles, while low-energy electrons spiral in the magnetic field

05/10/2024
Particle Physics

Matter Mysteries Explained: From Democritus to the Standard Model

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at night from Cape Canaveral carrying the GPS III SV09 navigation satellite, January 2026

01/10/2024
Electronics

The Secrets of GPS: Einstein’s Role in Everyday Navigation

21/09/2024
Particle Physics

James Clerk Maxwell: The Four Equations That Unified Electricity and Magnetism

21/09/2024
Science

America’s Cup Boats: The Science Behind Their Flight

Die photograph of an Nvidia TU104 graphics processor from a GeForce RTX 2080, showing the repeating blocks of its streaming multiprocessors

14/09/2024
Electronics

How Nvidia’s AI Chips Change Computing with Unique Power

Ettore Majorana

08/09/2024
Quantum physics

The Ettore Majorana Mystery: What Happened to the Quantum Genius?

CERN's wooden Globe of Science and Innovation lit up at dusk against a deep blue sky

11/08/2024
Opinions

CERN’s Hidden Crisis: The Problems Insiders Describe

Chess Skills

04/06/2024
Lifestyle

Did Einstein Play Chess? How Good He Was and His Elo

Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered the boson, kurzgesagt style

09/04/2024
Science

The Higgs Boson: Inside the Decades-Long Hunt for the “God Particle”

The Bullet Cluster, two colliding galaxy clusters, with hot X-ray gas shown in pink over a field of galaxies, an object used to test ideas about dark matter and antimatter

07/04/2024
Quantum physics

New Physics: Misteries That the Standard Model Can’t Explain