SCIENCE

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…

This image, of the Sun’s inner corona and prominences on the Sun, was taken during the April 20, 2023 total solar…

The full-field image of MACSJ0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate sub-clusters within the large cluster. The blue contours…

Physicists just can’t leave an incomplete theory alone; they try and repair it. When nature is kind, it can lead to…

In the very early Universe, there were tremendous numbers of quarks, leptons, anti-quarks, and anti-leptons of all species. After only a…

One of the very first spherules collected off of the ocean floor by Avi Loeb’s expedition to try to recover fragments…

Here to help us explore these objects and their impact this month is Skylar Grayson, a PhD candidate at the School…

The 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope is currently under construction, and will be the greatest new ground-based observatory on Earth. The spider…