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The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton

Par : Charlie Wood
Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces, and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.

A Popular Alien-Hunting Technique Is Increasingly in Doubt

Par : Elise Cutts
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.

Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole?

Par : Rhett Allain
Here’s a cool way to watch the eclipse on Monday—and learn about the weird physics of light while you’re at it.

Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

Par : Stephen Ornes
A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.

Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

Par : Ben Brubaker
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to a kind of quantum error correction.

You Can Count on Pi

Par : Rhett Allain
On Pi Day we answer the burning question: Is there any world in which pi does not go on forever?

Top French University Faces Yet Another Crisis as Leader Resigns

Par : Aurelien Breeden
Mathias Vicherat, the director of Sciences Po, and his former partner are expected to face trial over mutual accusations of violence. His resignation prolongs years of tumult in the school’s highest ranks.

When Mathias Vicherat became director of Sciences Po in 2021, he vowed to prioritize efforts to prevent sexual violence and sexism.

How Do Heat Pumps Work?

Par : Rhett Allain
Our in-house physics whiz explains how a heat pump can warm your home without burning fossil fuels.

There’s a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding

Par : Steve Nadis
An idea derived from string theory suggests that dark matter is hidden in an as-yet-unseen extra dimension. Scientists are racing to test the theory to see if it holds up.

Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real?

Par : Rhett Allain
BetaVolt’s nuclear battery lasts for decades, but you won’t see one in your next iPhone—powering a mobile device would require a cell the size of a yak.

Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI

Par : Stephen Ornes
By rewarding computers that combined different approaches to solve chess puzzles, Google created an enhanced AI that could defeat its existing champion, AlphaZero.

A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade

Par : Madison Goldberg
Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.

How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

Par : Steve Nadis
As computer-driven cars and planes become more common, the key to preventing accidents, researchers show, is to know what you don’t know.

Why Is Our Solar System Flat?

Par : Rhett Allain
It started as a big old ball of dust, so how did it end up like a giant pancake? Our resident physicist tells the true story using fake forces.

Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains

Par : Matt Simon
“Distributed acoustic sensing” looks for disturbances in fiber to detect earthquakes and even insects. Can it also improve rail safety?

Scientists Just Discovered a New Type of Magnetism

Par : Michael Greshko
In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.

How to Convince Your Flat-Earth Friends the World Is Round

Par : Rhett Allain
Two experiments you can do yourself to finally, definitively put this question to rest.

Why the Polar Vortex Is Bad for Balloon Artists

Par : Rhett Allain
Leave a balloon out in the cold and it’ll shrink and look pathetic. Sorry, but that’s the law—the ideal gas law.

These Rogue Worlds Upend the Theory of How Planets Form

Par : Charlie Wood
Scientists have recently discovered scores of free-floating planets that defy classification—forcing them to rethink their theories of star and planet formation.

The Tantalizing Mystery of the Solar System’s Hidden Oceans

Par : Robin Andrews
The moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to have subsurface oceans which could support life beyond Earth. But it’s not clear why these seas exist at all.

School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings

Par : Rhett Allain
Playing the guitar is an art form. But the good vibrations you hear are a science.

Leader of Elite French University Offers to Step Aside, for Now

Par : Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle
Mathias Vicherat, the director of Sciences Po, has exchanged accusations of domestic violence with his partner. The police are investigating.

Students at Sciences Po staged a sit-in on campus last week to demand the resignation of Mathias Vicherat, the director of the university. The banner reads, “Protected aggressors, abandoned victims, Sciences Po, paradise of impunity.”

What Can You Do With an Einstein?

Par : Siobhan Roberts
Earlier this year, mathematicians discovered a unique shape. Now do-it-yourselfers have found ingenious ways to put it to use.

Math Scores Dropped Globally, but the U.S. Still Trails Other Countries

Par : Sarah Mervosh
In a global exam for 15-year-olds, only a handful of places, including Singapore, Japan and Australia, kept math performance high through the pandemic.

In math, the U.S. ranked 28th out of 37 participating countries from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group that includes mostly industrialized democracies.

An Invisible ‘Demon’ Lurks in an Odd Superconductor

Par : Charlie Wood
Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all but invisible. Now physicists have spotted these “demon modes.”

Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Detected the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn’t Stop There

Par : Swapna Krishna
The dean of MIT’s School of Science embraces skepticism and failure, and she wants the next generation of scientists to jump right in.

How Dr. Clara Nellist Collides Art and Science

Par : Swapna Krishna
This particle physicist, science communicator, and member of the team who uncovered the Higgs Boson wants everyone to know that art and science aren’t mutually exclusive.

Dr. Dara Norman Wants to Bring More People Into Science

Par : Swapna Krishna
From data access to scientific merit, Dr. Norman is working to make astronomy—and all STEM fields—more inclusive.

Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space

Par : Swapna Krishna
Pioneering a new field in cosmology, Dr. Pasterski explores diverse perspectives in physics and astronomy—and whether the universe might actually be a hologram.

How to Measure the Impact From a Collision

Par : Rhett Allain
Things smash into one other. Here’s what to do next.

Dr. Jessie Christiansen Wants to Help You Discover the Next Exoplanet

Par : Swapna Krishna
As project scientist on NASA’s Exoplanet Archive, Dr. Christiansen is a huge advocate for citizen science—and making sure anyone can be a planet hunter.

Could a Cockroach Survive a Fall From Space?

Par : Rhett Allain
If you’re resorting to more, uh, unconventional pest control methods, you’ll want to read this first.

To Wear the Sudoku Crown, One Must Solve Any Number of Puzzles

Par : Siobhan Roberts and Chloë Ellingson
Pens, pencils and a facility with numbers. Also helpful: earplugs, plushies, a water bottle, calming herbal oil and the occasional “wild bifurcation” (a.k.a. a wild guess).

Tantan Dai of China, front left, on the second day of the World Sudoku Championship in Toronto.

How to Measure the Calories in a Candy Bar—With Physics!

Par : Rhett Allain
Step one: Trick or treat. Step two: Get out your bomb calorimeter. (Yes, that is a real thing.)

Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking

Par : Ben Brubaker
Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms.

The Physics of Faraday Cages

Par : Rhett Allain
You can't block electromagnetic waves, but there's still a way to keep electronic devices like cell phones in stealth mode.

Magnetic Minerals May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry

Par : Yasemin Saplakoglu
The preferred “handedness” of biomolecules could have emerged from interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces on primordial Earth, new research suggests.
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