Stories by Clara Moskowitz

Duck-Shaped Comet Confounds Astronomers

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s incongruous chemical composition and shape raise questions about the origin of our solar system

2 Accelerators Find Particles That May Break Known Laws of Physics

The LHC and the Belle experiment have found particle decay patterns that violate the Standard Model of particle physics, confirming earlier observations at the BaBar facility

General Relativity at the Beach

A hammock turns out to be the perfect place to contemplate spacetime, especially if you happen to have some coconuts

Book Review: Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat

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Book Review: Einstein: His Space and Times

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Book Review: The Road to Relativity

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Stephen Hawking Hasn't Solved the Black Hole Paradox Just Yet

The mystery of black holes and information loss is too thorny for a quick resolution

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Survivors Speak Out on 70th Anniversaries of Bombings

Book Review: Life's Greatest Secret

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Book Review: Spurious Correlations

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Astronomers Gather in Hawaii Amid Controversy over Giant Telescope

Native Hawaiian groups are protesting construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea during a gathering of scientists in Honolulu

Book Review: Modern Romance

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Dark Matter Dominates Just-Discovered Galaxies

Astronomers have discovered more than 800 so-called "ultradiffuse galaxies" that are virtually invisible because they have relatively few stars and are mostly dark matter. Clara Moskowitz reports  

Book Review: Persona

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

SpaceX Rocket Failure Threatens Support for Commercial Spaceflight

The destruction of an unmanned rocket Sunday comes at a tricky time for NASA and the International Space Station

Life in the Solar System: A Q&A with the Authors of The Expanse

Scientific American spoke with Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck about the science behind their books and the upcoming television series based on them

What if Dark Matter Is Stranger Than We Thought? [Video]

The universe’s hidden stuff could be a mirror world of invisible particles and “dark atoms”

100 Years of Great Physics: Watch Live Monday and Tuesday [Video]

General relativity and Noether’s theorem take center stage in two live Web broadcasts this week

Book Review: Seveneves

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Dark Matter Particles Interact with Themselves

This never-before-seen phenomenon could help explain what comprises dark matter