The Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking Are humans the only beings in the universe confronting global self-destruction? Or just the last ones standing?
Galaxies in the Early Universe Were Shaped Like Bananas, Study Suggests Images from the Webb telescope suggest that newborn galaxies look weirder than expected. Exactly how screwy was physics at the dawn of time?
Particle Physicists Offer a Road Map For the Next Decade A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos. But meager federal budgets could limit its ambitions.
Nature Retracts Room-Temperature Superconductor Discovery It was the second paper led by Ranga P. Dias, a researcher at the University of Rochester, that the journal Nature has retracted.
The Big Nobel Prize Winners Were Short and Fast The awards for physics and chemistry were a reminder that the most important processes in nature unfold on a scale divorced from everyday human affairs.