Clara Moskowitz

Some physicists claim the popular landscape of universes in string theory may not exist.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 30 July 18

Scientists chose their favorite equations.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 1 June 17

The natural world is the only world, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll argues in a new book.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 11 May 16

High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are real or virtual — and what it means either way.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 12 April 16

The Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator failed to confirm the Tevatron accelerator’s discovery of a new arrangement of quarks.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 28 March 16

Data from the DZero experiment shows evidence of a particle containing four different types of quarks.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 29 February 16

The most precise measurement yet of the electron’s shape casts doubt on ideas such as supersymmetry that predict a zoo of undetected particles in the universe

By Clara Moskowitz Published 11 November 13

The Fitbit Flex was my constant companion for about a week, and by the end of it, I was pretty fond of the device.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 2 October 13

After a week wearing the Jawbone Up, I was pretty impressed with this nifty device.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 2 October 13

Slinking along through the sands of space is a "cosmic caterpillar" as dubbed by NASA in a new photo released from the Hubble Space Telescope.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 3 September 13

The Milky Way's giant black hole turns out to be a messy eater. Of all the gas that falls toward it, 99 percent gets spewed back out into space, new observations show.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 29 August 13

Astronomers have found a twin star to Earth's own sun, only much older. The rare star is the oldest known "solar twin," and offers a peek at what Earth's star will look like in 4 billion years.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 28 August 13

Is there any more esoteric, almost mystical-sounding scientific field than particle physics?

By Clara Moskowitz Published 27 August 13

Astronomers working with the Very Large Telescope in Chile plan to announce a "major result" Wednesday (Aug. 28).

By Clara Moskowitz Published 26 August 13

By Clara Moskowitz Published 23 August 13

Inside the Explorers Club are artifacts from over a century's worth of exploration, including narwhal tusks, a stuffed polar bear and even a whale penis.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 20 August 13

The Explorers Club is open only to members who've sailed to new shores, climbed to new heights or trekked on new paths.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 20 August 13

A strangely dense spot in the universe populated by a surprising amount of matter has been puzzling scientists since it was revealed in March in an all-sky map made by the European Planck satellite.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 30 July 13

The speed of light is considered to be the ultimate cosmic speed limit, thanks to Einstein's special theory of relativity. But physicists aren't content to assume this limit without testing it.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 29 July 13

Scientists have uncovered a new key to understanding the strange workings of neutron stars — objects so dense they pack the mass of multiple suns into a space smaller than a city.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 26 July 13

Exotic particles called neutrinos have been caught in the act of shape shifting, switching from one flavor to another, in a discovery that could help solve the mystery of antimatter.

By Clara Moskowitz Published 22 July 13