The image above shows an illustration of the three future LISA, or Laser Interferometer Space Antennae, spacecrafts, in a trailing orbit behind the Earth. LISA will be our first space-based gravitational wave detector, sensitive to objects thousands of times as...
Fascism isn’t defined by symbols like a strong-arm salute, a red hat, or a cult of personality surrounding a leader. Instead, it’s defined by the actions of a government: what they oppress and what they support. When comparing the 14...
Although we like to think that the Universe is symmetric, reflecting something as simple as a left hand in a mirror reveals a fundamental asymmetry: the mirror image of your hand is actually a right hand, not a left hand....
In this photo, a patient receives a vaccine known as the Jynneos vaccine, which is used to combat mpox. Although vaccines are the safest, most beneficial public health intervention in history (other than perhaps safe drinking water and sanitation), many...
This illustration shows a series of galaxies distributed throughout space, with many galaxies distributed in a spherical structure that represents an oscillatory feature imprinted in the very early Universe. These baryon acoustic oscillations, seen statistically for a few decades now,...
This view represents more than 50% of the COSMOS-Web survey: the largest, deepest view of the Universe ever acquired with JWST. It provides us with our deepest wide-field view of the Universe ever taken, revealing how galaxies and larger structures...
By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the Universe, scientists within the DESI collaboration have uncovered some (but not overwhelming) suggestive evidence that the strength of dark energy has weakened (and is weakening) over...
Atomic and molecular configurations come in a near-infinite number of possible combinations, but the specific combinations found in any material determine its properties. While diamonds are classically viewed as the hardest material found on Earth, they are neither the strongest...
In 2019, with Hurricane Dorian bearing down on the Florida coast, the official NOAA predictions (in white) were edited with a sharpie to incorrectly align with previous Donald Trump statements (that were factually inaccurate) about the potential path of the...
Although there are many novel proposals for new particle colliders, including in China, at CERN, and at Fermilab, the question of whether to build a circular machine, a linear lepton collider, or to pursue a novel muon collider all remain...
