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Why Is the Indian Army Tweeting About Yetis?

By Stephanie Pappas

The Indian Army has spurred an avalanche of jokes and bolstered the occasional true believer with a tweet purporting to show evidence of the elusive Yeti.

Giant Bird That Killed Its Owner Heads to Auction

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

The giant bird that killed its owner is now up for auction

Human Composting May Soon Be Legal in Washington State

By Laura Geggel

Inside Giant Atom Smasher, Physicists See the Impossible: Light Interacting with Light

By Paul Sutter

Physicists thought this was impossible, until now.

Researchers Just Measured an Atom with a Half-Life of 18 Sextillion Years

By Brandon Specktor

Researchers just measured an atom with a half-life of 18 sextillion years — 1 trillion times the age of the universe.

The World's Largest Atom Smasher Could Be Tweaked to Hunt 'Dark World' Particles

By Stephanie Pappas

The Large Hadron Collider should be able to detect these rare particles — if they exist.

Human Tongues Can Apparently Smell Things

By Rafi Letzter

The cells in your tongue can smell.

An ordinary proton or neutron (foreground) is formed of three quarks bound together by gluons, carriers of the color force. Above a critical temperature, protons and neutrons and other forms of hadronic matter "melt" into a hot, dense soup of free quarks

What Makes the Strong Force So Special?

By Paul Sutter

The Force is (super) strong with these quarks.

This Quantum Computer Can See the Future — All 16 of Them

By Brandon Specktor

This quantum computer can see many futures at once.

What Happened Before the Big Bang?

By Stephanie Pappas

The Big Bang is commonly thought of as the start of it all: About 13.8 billion years ago, the observable universe went boom and expanded into being. But what were things like before the Big Bang?

Abstract illustration of elements and nuclear energy.

The Quest to Find One of the Most Elusive Particle Decays in the Universe

By Paul Sutter

...and break the laws of physics.

Abstract illustration of entangled black holes, with a wormhole connecting them.

Physicists Think You Could Be Rescued from a Black Hole — But Don't Risk It

By Rafi Letzter

Researchers have developed a new, unspeakably dangerous, and incredibly slow method of crossing the universe. It involves wormholes linking special black holes that probably don't exist.

dragons, fire, breathe fire, daenerys targaryen

Can Any Animal Breathe Fire Like the Mythical Dragon?

By Laura Geggel

Drogon, Viserion and Rhaegal in HBO's "Game of Thrones" can breathe fire. But can any real animal pull off this fiery defense?

The ice wall in "Game of Thrones" separates the Seven Kingdoms from the wildlings.

What If Winter Lasted for Years Like It Does on 'Game of Thrones'?

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

It'd be cold, very cold

Is Dark Matter Fuzzy?

By Mara Johnson-Groh

These particles would be much tinier than electrons.

Why Giant Tortoise Sex Became the Basis of a Key 'Game of Thrones' Sound Effect

By Brandon Specktor

No, that's not a real dragon purring in the background of "Game of Thrones"; it's just a giant male tortoise moaning.

A Mathematician Just Solved a Deceptively Simple Puzzle That Has Boggled Minds for 64 Years

By Brandon Specktor

Can you add three cubed numbers and get 33? A mathematician just did, and it took only a few quadrillion attempts.

Mosquitoes Sucked Less Blood (and Had Less Sex) While Listening to Skrillex, Study Finds

By Brandon Specktor

Physicists Just Detected a Very Odd Particle That Isn't a Particle at All

By Paul Sutter

'm a particle that really isn't; I vanish before I can even be detected, yet can be seen. I break your understanding of physics but don't overhaul your knowledge. Who am I?

Space Agency Seeks Women to Stay in Bed for 2 Months. Pancakes Will Be Provided.

By Mindy Weisberger

Would you be willing to spend 60 days in bed for $19,000?

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