The force we experience most intimately remains the most mysterious. Physicists understand how vast migrations of particles called photons light up our homes, and how swarms of “gluon” particles hold ...

Imagine if the rules that work for ants suddenly started working for elephants too. Sounds impossible, right? But that's exactly what three American scientists John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...