Antimatter particles are mirror versions of matter particles, with the opposite values of properties such as electric charge. But they ‘annihilate’ in a puff of energy when they encounter their ...
The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had l ...
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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...
Prominent bioengineer Ali Khademhosseini has so far corrected more than 40 of the papers in question, but critics say some ...
On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt ...
Could antimatter really power a spaceship? Explore the incredible potential—and dangers—of antimatter as the ultimate fuel. Woman who killed her five-month-old baby to 'fulfill' sins found not guilty ...
Researchers from TUM, working at CERN, have made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how deuterons are formed. Another long-standing question in particle physics has been answered. Scientists ...
Chemical rockets have taken us to the moon and back, but traveling to the stars demands something more powerful. Space X's ...
Neutrinos are one of the most elusive and omnipresent particles in the universe. Their strange properties may explain why the amounts of matter and antimatter in our universe aren’t equal, as most ...
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 ...
A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly revised a vaccine safety page on its website to introduce language that suggests uncertainty over whether vaccines cause autism, echoing ...