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Trapping antimatter is kind of like trying to catch snowflakes with a frying pan — if the snowflakes wanted to blow up the ...

Something is out there. As far as scientists know, just 15% of the matter in the universe is the ordinary kind we can see. The other 85%, called dark matter, remains beyond detection, invisibly ...

Research on adults who take S.S.R.I.s shows they tamp down sexual desire. Why aren’t we studying what that could mean for adolescents who take them? Credit...Photo illustration by The New York Times ...

For decades, swimmers have treated foggy goggles as inevitable. The routine is familiar: stop on the wall, take your goggles off, wipe, re-set—and hope clarity lasts a few laps. Maritonia was founded ...