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Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe, becoming Homo neanderthalensis—the Neanderthals. They weren't our ancestors, ...

The mysterious dark matter! The universe has five times more dark matter than normal matter. Dark matter is just as mysterious as the origin of the big bang.

Lasers were created 60 years ago this year, when three different laser devices were unveiled by independent laboratories in the United States. A few years later, one of these inventors called the unusual light sources "a ...

Water is more abundant on the moon than we might have suspected, according to two papers published today in Nature Astronomy that confirm the presence of ice on and near the lunar surface.

The search for dark matter—an unknown and invisible substance thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe—is at a crossroads. Although it was proposed nearly 70 years ago and has been searched for intensely—with ...

This year, my colleague Andrey Pototsky and I were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for our experimental work involving vibrating living earthworms.

As humanity struggles to limit ever-rising temperatures, it also seeks to address growing poverty, disease and hunger across the world. Our team has designed an approach to address both issues in a way that is practical, ...

Why do moving rulers shrink (length contraction) and moving clocks run slow (time dilation) such that everyone measures the same speed of light c, regardless of their relative motions? Einstein resolved this mystery at the ...

The world is currently in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. Preventing the spread of COVID-19 from human to wildlife and domestic animals is an immediate concern of medical scientists worldwide. Recently, there have been ...

In the context of nanomedicine, nanoparticles are effective because they can be endowed with multiple functions and are able to hit their target without the need for extremely high doses, which are associated with dangerous ...

It's one of the most important genes in biology: Sry, the gene that makes males male. Development of the sexes is a crucial step in sexual reproduction and is essential for the survival of almost all animal species.

Everyone knows that "diamonds are forever." The brilliantly shining stones make for magnificent jewelry and represent carbon in its most prestigious form. What most people do not know, however, is the fascinating physics ...