Scientists have detected a persistent background hum of gravitational waves. This cosmic hum is a new way to explore the ...

Another theory held that the forces between two particles falls off exponentially in direct relationship to the distance between two particles and that the factor by which it drops is not dependent on ...

Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified approach for measuring the value of the Hubble constant. Published in ...

“This study demonstrates that eggshell biocalcite from non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and other egg-laying vertebrates has the potential to serve as a reliable geochronometer in Mesozoic and Cenozoic ...

NYU physicists accidentally found a way to make a time crystal using nothing but sound waves and tiny polystyrene beads. Time ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

An impending apocalypse is coming faster than we thought, after atomic scientists moved the hands of the "Doomsday Clock" ...

When you were eight, a single year seemed to last an eternity. Now you blink, and somehow it's January again. You're not out of touch with reality; your brain is just ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the difference, showing that Mars clocks tick slightly faster—and fluctuate over the ...

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T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

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