Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out ...

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A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the ...

The paper opened an entire research field. Since then, more than 7,000 published studies have shown the prevalence of ...

Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid water existed there around 3 to 4 ...

Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using ...

Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic ...

This discovery indicates that formaldehyde contributed to the formation of organic matter on ancient Mars, implying that bio-important molecules such as sugars and ribose (a component of RNA, which is ...