IntroductionAt a conference in Japan a few years ago, David Dunsky attended a talk about gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time created...
The motion of freely-falling bodies is independent of their composition. This is one of the foundations of Einstein’s Equivalence Principle (EEP), which underpins our...
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IntroductionClusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies sit at the intersections of giant, crisscrossing filaments of matter that form the tapestry of the cosmos....
IntroductionTime seems linear to us: We remember the past, experience the present and predict the future, moving consecutively from one moment to the next....
Children are natural scientists. They observe the world, form hypotheses, and test them out. Eventually, they learn to explain their (sometimes endearingly hilarious) reasoning.AI,...
Synthetic biology is already rewriting life.In late 2023, scientists revealed yeast cells with half their genetic blueprint replaced by artificial DNA. It was a...
Big-science facilities are often associated with fundamental research. You might picture scientists hunting for elementary particles, or searching to understand the nature of dark...
IntroductionWhen it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain. Ordinary...
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(Nanowerk News) For the past year and a half, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered astonishing images of distant galaxies formed...
