For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...

On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and an atomic clock in a lab.

Summary: Time doesn’t flow uniformly across the solar system, and new research reveals just how differently it unfolds on Mars compared with Earth. By tracing subtle gravitational and orbital ...

The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had l ...

Since the late 1800s, rechargeable batteries have revolutionized how we store and use energy in many ways. Although batteries ...

Last month, when Unhedged last wrote about crypto, bitcoin had taken a tumble and was trading just above $90,000. Since then, it has risen, then fallen into the $80,000 range, and then — yesterday — ...

Sarah Szakas, a postdoctoral research associate in the Chemical Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and ...

Nature offers a clue. Across every scale, stability comes not from chance but from structure. Cells rely on four molecular plans: polysaccharides, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Atoms arrange ...

In a cafe at CERN in 1992, three physicists realized they disagreed about how many constants are needed to describe all of nature. A recent paper suggests only one – time – is necessary.