Letting people in the US vote by mail has little impact on who wins
By Jason Arunn Murugesu Empty envelopes of opened vote by mail ballots for the 2020…
Physics
Inside the incredibly slow race to reinvent time
The latest atomic clocks are so staggeringly precise that they are going to redefine the…
Blue whirl that consumes all fuel it encounters is three flames in one
By Layal Liverpool The blue whirl flameSriram Hariharan (University of Maryland) We may be one…
Why dark matter should be called something else
There are many things that we don’t understand about dark matter, but whether it is…
Ordinary bricks laced with conductive fibres can store energy
By Leah Crane Bricks that can power an LEDThe D’Arcy Laboratory in Washington University in…
Physicists have a massive problem as Higgs boson refuses to misbehave
By Leah Crane The CMS experiment at CERN is studying the Higgs bosonMax Brice/CERN Physicists…
We just figured out why shaving soft hair blunts steel razor blades
By Leah Crane Now we know why razor blades get dull so rapidlySujata Jana /…
The future of air travel in a warmer world
Air travel contributes to climate change, but scientists have only recently discovered that climate change…
Beirut explosion: What caused the blast and what else do we know?
By Michael Le Page An aerial view shows the massive damage done to Beirut’s portAFP…
Half of Nobel prizes in science go to just five research fields
By Adam Vaughan Nobel prizes go to scientists in a narrow range of fieldsKay Nietfeld…