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The Mysterious X Boson Could Upend the Standard Model. If It Actually Exists

A Simple Proof From the Pattern-Matching Card Game Set Stuns Mathematicians

A Disk of Dark Matter Might Run Through Our Galaxy

New Evidence Could Overthrow the Standard View of Quantum Mechanics

Meet Janna Levin, the Chillest Astrophysicist Alive

Tiny Tests Probe for Dark Matter and Other Exotic Physics

Your Simple (Yes, Simple) Guide to Quantum Entanglement

Triangles in the Sky Tell the Story of the Universe's Birth

Mathematical Matchmaker Michael Atiyah Dreams of a Quantum Union

A Map of the Brain Could Teach Machines to See Like You

Mathematician Solves the Centuries-Old Sphere Problem in Higher Dimensions

The Mystery of the Minimal Cell, Craig Venter's New Synthetic Life Form

Mathematicians Have Discovered a Prime Conspiracy

Scientists Search for Signatures of Alien Life Hidden in Gas

After Two Black Holes Collide, a Puzzling Flash

Virtuoso Experiment Reveals the Quantum Secret to Superconductivity

Even Einstein Didn't Think Gravitational Waves Existed

New Clues to the Mystery of How Our Brains Keep Time

The Hunt for the Algorithms That Drive Life on Earth

Following Time's Arrow to the Universe's Biggest Mystery