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What Is a Quantum Field? Understanding the Fundamental Nature of Reality

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How Black Holes Work: The Physics Behind Nature’s Monsters

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Understanding the Higgs Boson: What Is the God Particle?

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New Study Reveals the Hidden Psychology Behind Sexual Power Dynamics

Ancient sloths lived in trees, on mountains, in deserts, boreal forests and open savannahs. These differences in habitat are primarily what drove the wide difference in size between sloth species. Credit: Diego Barletta

Sloths Once Ruled the Earth on Giant Feet and Guts of Steel

Space and Galaxy light speed travel. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

Why Time Moves Forward: The Physics of the Arrow of Time

Schrödinger’s Cat Explained: Quantum Mechanics and Paradoxes

The Double-Slit Experiment: How Physics Proves Observation Changes Reality

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What Is String Theory? The Elegant Solution or Science Fiction?

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How Gravity Really Works According to Modern Physics

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Classical vs Quantum Physics: What’s the Real Difference?

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How Einstein Changed the Universe: The Theory of Relativity Explained

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Best Foods for Glowing Skin: Nourish Your Way to Radiance

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How to Get Clear Skin Naturally

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What Your Skin Says About Your Health

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How to Improve Digestion Naturally

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What Causes Bloating and How to Stop It

Left: Near-infrared image of a nearby galaxy VV114 and the background monster barred spiral galaxy J0107a at z=2.433 captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA. Right: Stellar and molecular gas distribution of J0107a. Credit: NASA, ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Huang et al

This Ancient Galaxy Shouldn’t Exist but Its Structure Mirrors the Milky Way

Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies emit radiation and ultra-fast winds into space. Here is an artist's visualization. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech

Black Hole Winds Could Be Firing the Universe’s Most Powerful Particles

The raw (gray) phase-folded light curves of RBO and TGLC TESS sectors 20, 21, 47, and 74 photometry for TOI-5573. The best joint fit model is shown in red, and the 1σ confidence intervals are shown in yellow. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.08947

Astronomers Find Rare Giant Planet Orbiting an Unlikely Star

A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered trans-Neptunian object 2017 OF201. Credit: Images of dwarf planets: NASA/JPL-Caltech; image of 2017 OF201: Sihao Cheng et al.

A New World Emerges at the Edge of the Solar System

Image of a protoplanetary disk from ALMA. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

Magnetic Secrets of Stars May Point to Lost Planets

Purple haze around Titan—A false-color image of Titan captured in 2004 by the Cassini spacecraft. The purple haze shows the dense atmosphere enveloping the moon's golden body. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Scientists Uncover Strange Gyroscopic Motion in Titan’s Sky

Since its science observations began in July, 2022, the JWST has discovered a series of increasingly distant, ancient galaxies. JADES-GS-z14-0 was the record holder at a redshift of 14.32. But now it’s found another ancient, bright galaxy at redshift z=14.44. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), B. Johnson (CfA), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), P. Cargile (CfA)

Ancient Galaxy Discovered Just 280 Million Years After the Big Bang Shocks Astronomers

(a) Reconstruction drawing of the house. (b) Overview photo of the cellar feature (seen from the east, about the same orientation as the reconstruction drawing). (c) Detail photo of the cellar wall, marked by red lines, seen from the west. Drawing and photos: Museum Lolland-Falster. Credit: Radiocarbon (2024). DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2024.79

Stone Age Refrigeration Discovered in Denmark

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Dangerous DNA Myths? New Study Connects Far-Right Support to Genetic Determinism

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Loving Nature May Be the Secret to a Happier Life—Not How Often You Go Outside

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Scientists Discover Teeth Began as Sensory Armor Long Before Eating Came Into Play

Distribution of the human OH field when a lotion or a fragrance is applied in the room. Human OH field with lotion (A and B) and fragrance (C and D). Spatial distributions of OH reactivity and gas-phase species under two conditions: (A) and (B) represent the scenario where lotion was applied to the exposed skin of four occupants, observed at 60 and 600 s, respectively, after O3 was introduced into the room from a perforated inlet on the floor. (C) and (D) depict the scenario where a fragrance was applied to the back of the hands of two occupants sitting in the chamber, observed at 40 and 90 s, respectively, after the fragrance application. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads7908

Perfume and Lotion Are Quietly Changing the Air You Breathe Indoors

The MRI scans of nine participants in the study, all children, adolescents and young adults, show how varied the tertiary sulci (color patches) are among individuals. The patches are identified sulci in the lateral prefrontal and lateral parietal cortices of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Credit: Hakkinen et al, UC Berkeley

How Small Grooves in the Brain Shape Cognitive Power and Connectivity