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Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity.

In 1973, John Archibald Wheeler captured the relationship between matter and space-time in two concise statements: “Space acts on matter, telling it how to move.

Space

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA is racing to rescue it

Before the end of the month, a robotic spacecraft will launch on an unprecedented rescue mission. Its target is NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a

Space

The Last Astronomers. Amid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their field

One afternoon in April, Cecilia Garraffo sat at the head of a conference room table in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and looked out at what might be

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El Niño Has Begun. It May Become the Strongest This Century

After clearing a spring forecasting hurdle, scientists see growing odds of a powerful climate event that could disrupt weather worldwide In March, Nat Johnson, a

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New NIH Security Rules for Genomic Data Sets Are Slowing Research, Prompting Workarounds

Data security experts say increased oversight is needed, but researchers are struggling to comply In the spring of 2025, Andrew Lynn, a developmental cognitive neuroscientist

Reading the Moon Like a Book — For the First Time
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Reading the Moon Like a Book — For the First Time

It might seem remarkable that a question as basic as "what is the Moon made of, and where?" remains unanswered.

Physics

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

Every time this question comes up in particle physics, it quickly becomes less straightforward than it first appears. At first glance, the Standard Model seems

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Do animals perceive time differently from humans?

Science spoke with Ishan Singhal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, whose team is developing a new framework—called “timescapes”—to understand how nonhuman animals

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Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow

Like a stadium crowd performing a coordinated wave, neurons across the brain generate rhythmic electrical activity that sweeps through neural tissue in structured patterns. These

Students Went Looking for the Universe's Most Elusive Particle — With a Detector They Built Themselves
Physics

Students Went Looking for the Universe’s Most Elusive Particle — With a Detector They Built Themselves

Two undergraduate students from the University of Hamburg, decided to build their own dark matter experiment.