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It is believed that nearly every large galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its center, with…

Entropy is one of the most maligned and misunderstood concepts in science. Maybe you’ve heard it defined as the “amount…

One of the fundamental pillars of modern cosmology may be beginning to wobble. A study published in Nature has found…

Some good news and some bad news. The good news is that, contrary to earlier fears, Earth will probably never…

How much does your mileage vary with speed? Every car is different, but the US Department of Energy estimates that…

We need one more thing—how about Newton’s second law? This says the acceleration depends on the net force (Fnet) and…

The design of the official ball of the 2026 World Cup could become a determining factor in the scores of…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For the past few decades, researchers have understood that quantum computers…

Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic voids—vast regions…

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve…

Biotech company Imperagen announced on Thursday a £5 million ($6.7 million) seed round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from…

During the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert—the world’s very first test of an…

The “Golden Age of Radio” supposedly ended in the ’50s, with the advent of television. But guess what? TV shows…

Let’s use our car again, but this time we’ll get real numbers from the accelerometer in our smartphone. Say we…

Get it? So a spinning loop produces an oscillating flux; if you graphed its values it would trace out a…

The second difference is the equal sign instead of less-than-or-equal. This means the frictional force is constant as long as…