Stories by Clara Moskowitz

Scientists have designed a new kind of paradoxical shape

A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe

The Large Hadron Collider just produced a never-before-seen particle made of charm and down quarks

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing

Hidden Fibonacci numbers, a new shape and the search for a grand unified theory of mathematics are among our choices for most exciting findings of the year

Psychological data and brain scans show how sleep can improve our lives, our bodies and our relationships

Astronomers have sighted the oldest known stellar explosion, dating back to when the universe was less than a billion years old

These valuable but difficult-to-extract metals are increasingly important to modern life

Black holes and quantum mechanics present a paradox about the preservation of information

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth

Inertial confinement reactors, stellarators and tokamaks each have pros and cons

The public can submit names to travel along with four astronauts on an orbital journey to the moon next year

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics

More familiar smells and scents from complex molecules can often be more appealing

The Perseids are the best annual meteor shower, but this year’s show will be dimmed by a bright gibbous moon

The first antimatter qubit will help search for differences between matter and antimatter

Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of solids

The LHCb experiment has observed a new difference between matter and antimatter in particles called baryons

Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

Research has shown ways parents can help children cope with the stressors of modern life

How hurricanes push water onto shore in deadly storm surges, and why storm surges are getting worse

What we know about Joe Biden’s cancer, prognosis and treatment options

Scientists are studying why some species live so much longer than others

Physicists think the insides of black holes may be complex mazes of tangled strings in higher dimensions