But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

No system in the world can claim 100% interception,” an Israeli Defense Forces officer admitted recently, as Iranian missiles broke through the Iron Dome’s prestige and hit close to the center of Tel ...

The Large Hadron Collider is one of the biggest experiments in history, but it’s also one of the hardest to interpret. Unlike ...

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Ross Douthat: Is Silicon Valley recklessly ambitious? What should we fear more: Armageddon or stagnation? Why is one of the ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute who explains why the Red Planet may hold answers about ...

Did light shine in the universe’s earliest moments, or was it hidden from view? While this question may seem simple at first, ...

There’s a place in the Pocono Mountains where the ducks don’t just quack – they sizzle, crackle, and transform into the kind of dish that makes grown adults close their eyes and moan inappropriately ...

Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, ...

Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using nukes, explaining why they were ...