SCIENCE

The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old.…

Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with…

The expanding Universe, in many ways, is the ultimate out-of-equilibrium system. After enough time passes, will we eventually get there? Continue…

In ~7 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and die. So will every star, eventually. Here are the…

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.…

Axions, one of the leading candidates for dark matter, may be able to be converted to photons (and vice versa) under…

The center of the galaxy doesn’t just host stars and a black hole, but an enormous set of rich gassy and…

During the Cambrian explosion, some 550–600 million years ago, the first complex, differentiated, macroscopic, multicellular, sexually-reproducing animals came to dominate the…

First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link. Continue…

On the right, the gauge bosons, which mediate the three fundamental quantum forces of our Universe, are illustrated. There is only…