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Johns Hopkins researchers may have identified a compelling clue in the ongoing hunt to prove the existence of dark matter. A ...

Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it ...

We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to […] ...

We know the Earth’s inner core is largely solid, which sets a ceiling on its temperature, and in turn, how much heat dark ...

Thinking about science and technology in terms of return on investment misses the point. Here’s what kids really need to know ...

Virtual particles are a striking paradox of modern physics. They shouldn't exist, yet they are indispensable for calculating everything from the ... or organizations control increasing shares of the ...

Body mass index, or BMI for short, is a measure of body weight based on your height. For decades, BMI has been a way to measure whether someone is at a healthy weight. In general, people are ...