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French inventor Jacques des Voccansons is particularly remembered for producing three curiosity automata in the 18th century. Posters at the…

When astronauts arrive on the moon’s surface, they first encounter a plume of dirt thrown by the spacecraft’s boosters. They…

Like other planets, Mercury is a world of extremes, but not necessarily in meaningful ways. Its iron core is inexplicably…

Most physicists operate on the assumption that there is a world completely independent of us, an objective reality in which…

We live in the age of black hole photography. In 2019, the first photograph of a black hole was published.…

1996, Italian physicist Peter HiggsLeonardo Cendamo/Getty Images Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died at the age of 94. Higgs’…

The fans roar to life, pumping air upwards at 260 kilometers per hour. Wearing a baggy blue jumpsuit, red helmet,…

And unlike pop-culture depictions of theoretical physicists scribbling in solitude on blackboards, covered in chalk dust, Dr. Massey likes to…

Monica Schreier Smith wants to create spacetime from scratch in her labHarrison Truong/Stanford University Space and time may not be…

Virginia Tech Faculty of Science’s J. Mark Sowers Special Lecture Series The first lecture of the year with Cornell University…