The ocean is saturated with microplastics. While we know the location of the great garbage patches, where plastic particles ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...

CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron will turn 50 in 2026—and it has a resonant “ghost.” Using mathematics, physicists measured and modeled how these resonant lines intersect. Modeling a 3D shape over time ...

Researchers have developed an AI system that learns about the world via videos and demonstrates a notion of “surprise” when ...

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

For the first time, scientists have resolved extremely intense tropical cyclones and their effect on the ocean carbon cycle in a global Earth system model. Using two category-4 hurricanes in the North ...

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

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