When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set off a whole new era in astronomy.

Scientific research was suppressed for decades in Maoist China, Stalin's Russia, and Nazi Germany. This seriously held back ...