Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science — in particular, a fascination with particle ...

When is a collection of stars just a collection of stars and when is it a galaxy? This sounds like a nerdy joke or riddle of some kind, but it is instead an actual scientific question that the ...

Scientists found exotic prime numbers may play a role in black hole physics, revealing a surprising connection between number theory and the extreme environments of the universe.

When mobile charge carriers, also known as itinerant electrons, interact with the strong exchange magnetic fields associated ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

University of Oregon physicist Eric Corwin and a team of current and former students have used computer simulations to construct what they describe as the first “ideal glass,” a disordered material ...

Three years ago, in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the passage of an "ultra-energetic" cosmic neutrino was observed—the ...

The research makes use of data coming from telescopes deep in the Milky Way.

Scientists have discovered a potential role for exotic prime numbers in black hole physics, highlighting an unexpected link between mathematics and cosmic phenomena.

An international team of scientists hunting for the origin of a mysterious ultra-energetic cosmic neutrino detected in 2023 said new evidence suggests the unusually powerful particle, whose energy ...

The parity-identification problem fits naturally into this landscape. Parity is a global property, insensitive to most local details. In this respect, it resembles many other quantities studied in ...