Antimatter Is Both a Particle and a Wave, New Experiment Confirms By Rafi Letzter Antimatter is made of waves, and physicists have proven it at the level of a single antimatter particle.
Why Mathematicians Are Obsessed with (and Hoarding) This Chalk By Mindy Weisberger It's considered the Rolls-Royce of chalk. Here's why.
Navy Plans to Document UFO Sightings, But Keep Them Confidential By Laura Geggel Extraterrestrials, take note: The U.S. Navy plans to set up an official reporting and investigative system that will monitor reports from its pilots about unidentified flying objects.
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
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.
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?
The Quest to Find One of the Most Elusive Particle Decays in the Universe By Paul Sutter ...and break the laws of physics.
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.
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?
What If Winter Lasted for Years Like It Does on 'Game of Thrones'? By Yasemin Saplakoglu It'd be cold, very cold
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.