At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...

Despite being the most abundant particles in the universe, neutrinos are notoriously difficult to detect. Could launching a ...

These acoustic waves, which astronomers spotted within a dataset spanning 25 years of observations by both space and ground-based observatories, travel three times faster than predicted by current ...

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Scientists have used the Sun to probe a potential fifth force of nature that is predicted by many alternative theories of gravity 1. In 1998, astronomers made the surprising discovery that the ...