Dash of Meson, Pinch of Baryon: Scientists Find Recipe for Ultrarare Pentaquarks By Stephanie Pappas Researchers now know what's going on inside mysterious particles called pentaquarks.
Ancient Microbes Ate Each Other's Corpses to Survive Beneath the Dead Sea By Brandon Specktor The dead sea is neither dead nor a sea. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Supercomputers Solve a Mystery Hidden Inside Merging Water Droplets By Rafi Letzter Weird things happen when water droplets smash into each other.
World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Just Found Evidence for Why Our Universe Exists By Stephanie Pappas An asymmetry between matter and antimatter has been observed in the charm quark.
Flat-Earthers' Cruise Will Sail to Antarctica 'Ice Wall' at the Planet's Edge. Right. By Mindy Weisberger A flat-Earthers conference promises a cruise to Antarctica.
The 'True' Neutrino Has Hidden from Physicists for Decades. Could They Find It in Antarctica? By Paul M. Sutter Neutrinos are the changelings of the subatomic world, but physicists are getting closer to pinning down the particles' true identities.
More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) By Mindy Weisberger Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can — at the quantum level, that is.
Physicists Reverse Time for Tiny Particles Inside a Quantum Computer By Meredith Fore The "arrow of time" went backward inside this tiny quantum computer.
Scientists Watch As Heat Moves Through 'Pencil Lead' at the Speed of Sound By Jeanna Bryner Scientists have seen something magical happening inside graphite.
Put a Black Hole in Your Pocket with This New Stephen Hawking 50-Pence Coin By Brandon Specktor It features one of the late physicist's most iconic equations.
What a Fluke! Man Ends Up in Whale's Mouth By Stephanie Pappas A whale accidentally ended up with a mouth full of snorkeler while hunting fish near South Africa.
Sometimes This Comb Jelly Has An Anus. And Sometimes It Doesn't. By Mindy Weisberger Like a rainbow, the anus of a comb jelly is a fleeting thing.
Physicists Used Supercomputers to Map the Bone-Crushing Pressures Hiding Inside Protons By Rafi Letzter If you shrank yourself down and entered a proton, you'd experience among the most intense pressures found anywhere in the universe.
Opium-Addicted Parrots Are Terrorizing Poppy Farms in India By Brandon Specktor Opium-addicted parrots are "wreaking havoc" on India's licensed poppy farms, and scaring them with firecrackers isn't helping.
Giant Newfound 'Medusa' Virus Turns Amoebas to 'Stone' By Rachael Rettner Like the mythical monster Medusa, a newfound giant virus turns its host to "stone." But, luckily for us, its hosts are amoebas.
Where Are All the 'Sparticles' That Could Explain What's Wrong with the Universe? By Paul Sutter A recent search for oddball supersymmetric particles, which could explain some of the weirdness of the universe, came up empty-handed.
Someone Decapitated a 'Crusader' Mummy in Ireland and Ran Off with Its Head By Brandon Specktor Police in Ireland are looking for the head of a very tall mummy.
What the Heck Happened to This Yo-Yo Champ's Index Finger? By Mindy Weisberger A yo-yo champion experienced dramatic ups and downs for the circulation in his index finger.
Black Snow Is Falling from the Skies in Siberia, and It Is Toxic By Brandon Specktor Don't eat the black snow.
Russia Claims Strobe-Light Weapon Causes Nausea & Hallucinations. Is That Even Possible? By Yasemin Saplakoglu How flashing light can overwhelm the brain
