How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything Most of the quantum fields that fill our universe have one, and only one, preferred state, in which they’ll remain…
The Gaia Mission Keeps Unlocking Secrets of the… There are probably 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, stretched across space in a disk shaped like a ninja’s…
The James Webb Space Telescope Finally Prepares… More recently, some astronomers and astrophysicists have argued that NASA should rename its new flagship…
Cosmologists Close in on Logical Laws for the… The universe started out quite smooth overall, the thinking goes, but quantum wiggles imprinted space with tiny…
The Great Neutrino Mystery Could Point to… In 1993, deep underground at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, a few flashes of light inside a bus-size…