In 1956, a team of scientists conducted an experiment that, seemed kind of trivial, but the results would challenge one of ...

Weekend visitors from Boston and New York City—accustomed to urban thrift stores with big-city price tags—express audible delight at the Vermont pricing scale. One particularly charming aspect of ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

LISA is the major ESA scientific mission that will observe the Universe by detecting the gravitational waves that traverse it ...

Scientists are using anesthesia to probe the quantum roots of consciousness—and the research offers tantalizing evidence.

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

During the month of November, I was grateful enough to spend my fall break at home, curled up on the couch with a good book ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

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