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Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Advanced alien civilizations might not be whispering across the cosmos with radio waves at all, but instead flickering like ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

The scientists behind the MAGIS-100 experiment aim to use state-of-the-art lasers to shed light on ultralight dark matter.

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

WorldCon, the annual volunteer-run science fiction and fantasy writing convention, sweeps through a different city every year ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...