Stratolaunch, the World's Biggest Aircraft, Makes Historic 1st Flight By Jeanna Bryner An odd-looking, double-bodied airplane with a wingspan as long as a football field just took to the skies today (April 13) from the Mojave Air & Space Port.
Fall Into the Google Doodle of a Black Hole By Mindy Weisberger You can't resist the attraction of Google Doodle's black hole animation.
Is It Solid? Or Is It Liquid? New Kind of Matter Is Both. By Mindy Weisberger Solid and liquid intertwine at the atomic level.
Why Some Evangelical Christians See This Pet Technology as the Work of the Antichrist By Jordan Frith An almost invisible electronic device used all over the world has alarmed some evangelical Christian communities, who see in this technology the work of the Antichrist.
Computer Software Could Crack Centuries-Old Math Puzzle By Christopher Rasmussen Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process is so convoluted that few can actually use it to tackle their problems.
Physicists Stuffed a Ghostly 'Skyrmion' Full of 'Antiskyrmions' By Rafi Letzter The ghostly 'quasiparticles' have barely any material existence, but physicists are still managing to manipulate them into uncanny shapes.
Airplane Wing Assembles Like a Jigsaw Puzzle and Can Morph Into Any Shape By Stephanie Pappas The new wing could make for lighter, more efficient airplanes.
Here's What the Speed of Light Looks Like in Slow Motion By Brandon Specktor What does the speed of light look like? CalTech researchers built the world's fastest camera to find out.
Extreme, Hydrogen-Crushing Physicists Are Pushing Us into a 'New Era of Superconductivity' By Rafi Letzter Lanthanum, diamond crushers and advanced computer models are changing the hunt for this extreme quantum mechanical effect.
What Is Cryptocurrency? By Greg Uyeno Cryptocurrencies aren't just alternatives to government-issued forms of money. Most of them are designed to be very different
AI Is Good (Perhaps Too Good) at Predicting Who Will Die Prematurely By Mindy Weisberger Medical researchers have unlocked an unsettling ability in artificial intelligence.
Defying Laws of Nature, Scientists Force 'Supercrystals' Into Existence By Rafi Letzter A team of physicists used lasers to create "supercrystals," even as the structures fought to not exist at all.
Karen Uhlenbeck Just Won One of Math's Most Prestigious Prizes. Here's Why Her Work Is So Important. By Yasemin Saplakoglu Her work has led to some of the most important advances in math in the last 40 years.
Truly Spooky: How Ghostly Quantum Particles Fly Through Barriers Almost Instantly By Mindy Weisberger Scientists recently unraveled a physics puzzle that has stymied experts since the dawn of quantum mechanics.
Physicists May Have Found a Way to 'Untangle' Information Trapped in a Black Hole By Adam Mann Scrambled particles provide a window into a black hole's heart.
This Glass Seemed to Break the Laws of Electricity — Here's What Really Happened By Rafi Letzter The glass shouldn't have boiled. But it did. Physicists had to figure out why that wasn't against the laws of physics.
Here's the Science Behind Finding North Korea's Nuclear Weapons By Stephanie Pappas Remote monitoring can reveal a lot.
Physicists Just Solved a 35-Year-Old Mystery Hidden Inside Atomic Cores By Rafi Letzter The quarks inside atoms move slower than the quarks inside free-floating protons and neutrons. But why?
A 12-Year-Old Built a Fusion Reactor in His Playroom By Rafi Letzter A 12-year-old kid from Tennessee created a nuclear reaction in his family's playroom. Here's how he did it.
Microwaved Grapes Spit Plasma, and Scientists Finally Know Why By Mindy Weisberger Why do grapes ignite when you microwave them? At long last, science has an answer.
