James Peebles, one of the world’s greatest cosmologists, has profoundly influenced our understanding of dark matter, dark energy, and the big bang, contributions that earned him the 2019 Nobel Prize …
Astronauts who’ve lived on the International Space Station and “walked” in space tell all: what it’s like to ride on a space ship, and to eat, sleep, exercise, and even do science—in space.
Beyond Einstein: Gravitational Rainbows. Much as a gentle mist can split light waves into beautiful rainbows, dark energy may split gravitational waves into deeply revealing gravitational rainbows. Leading researcher Claudia …
Smashing sledgehammers, ducking spike-covered pendulums, tug or war matches in socks are all part of the physics classes of @BASISIndBK Joshua Winters and @NYCSchools Yenmin Young. Science teachers prepare tomorrow’s …
Scientists have waited a generation to see the stunning images that the James Webb Telescope is now delivering. In a live online Q+A, Brian Greene speaks with Nobel Prize-winner John …
Just a handful of technologies deserve to be called “game changers”—and CRISPR-Cas9, the new gene-editing tool, is one of them. Discovered just three years ago, CRISPR is sweeping through labs around the world and researchers are already using it to experiment on diseases.