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Radar Scans Detail North Korean Nukes
Scientists have added radar info to seismic data, isotope measurements and optical imagery to study covert nuclear tests. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Nuclear Bomb Test Moved North Korea Mountain
A new analysis of a seismic signal suggests the entire mountain didn’t collapse
The New Era of Multimessenger Astronomy
Astronomers' newfound ability to see the same cosmic events in light, particles and gravitational waves—a synthesis called multimessenger astronomy—gives them a fuller picture of some of the universe's most mysterious phenomena
Universe's Coolest Lab Set to Open Quantum World
NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory will allow physicists to play with quantum phenomena like never before
Particle Physicists Turn to AI to Cope with CERN's Collision Deluge
Can a competition with cash rewards improve techniques for tracking the Large Hadron Collider’s messy particle trajectories?
Mars Lander Will Peer Inside the Red Planet
The InSight Mission will look at Mars's seismic activity and latent heat to find out more about how planets get made--and how humans might live there.
Walking Water
A rainbow-colored activity from Science Buddies
Africa: Future Worldwide Science Hub
Thierry Zomahoun, president of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, talks about the potential and needs of science on the continent.
What Time Is It?
The chronic complaint
Universe's First Moments Mimicked with Ultracool Atoms
Physicists see the hallmarks of cosmic expansion in a ring of cold atoms
Make Your Own Rainbow
A colorful science project from Science Buddies
Here Come the Waves
After a clutch of historic detections, gravitational-wave researchers have set their sights on some ambitious scientific quarry
Crash, Clunk, Thump--Let's Make Some Noise!
A clamorous activity from Science Buddies
Glacier Suddenly Goes Galloping
Researchers try to figure out why every 20 years a Pakistan glacier moves roughly 1,500 times faster.
Create a Ring of Air!
An air-blasting science project from Science Buddies
Some Habitable Zone Exoplanets May Get X-Rayed Out
Red dwarfs are a popular place to hunt for small exoplanets in the habitable zone—but the stars' radiation bursts might fry chances for life as we know it. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Watch Live Today: Scripting the "Quantum Age" with Tools Fashioned from Subatomic Particles
Quantum matter researcher Rob Moore discusses how novel materials harnessing the quantum properties of atoms and electrons will define the next generation of technology
Beguiling Dark Matter Signal Persists 20 Years on
Physicists at experiment in Italy continue to see a data fluctuation that they say represents dark matter—but the mystery deepens
Quantum Leaps: Read the Winning Entry in a Physics-Inspired Fiction Contest
The Quantum Shorts competition invited stories incorporating the laws of quantum mechanics
