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When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set ...

In this little science experiment I am going to take 3 sections out of the tree, one from the top, one from the bottom, and ...

Albert Einstein’s genius for unconventional thinking offers a provocative framework for breaking today's deadly stalemate ...

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A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

Physicist who spearheaded the construction of the LIGO observatory to detect Einstein’s predicted ripples in space-time ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” ...