Category: 1. Edi-Choice

The physics of ‘Penisgate’ and how ski jumpers fly

An ice-bound “ghost particle” detector at the South Pole just got a major upgrade.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has expanded for the first time in its 15 years of service. Technicians have added more than 600 new instruments to the bottom of…

Daniel John slips his arms through the straps of his souped-up baby carrier, settles the harness against his chest and eases a newborn-sized doll behind the smoky blue–tinted window velcroed into the fabric. He checks the fit and…

A supermassive black hole may have been caught in the act of fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000-light-year trail of newborn stars behind it. The observation provides some of the strongest evidence yet that gravitational-wave recoil can…

If you’ve ever felt that your love is so large, it needs a cosmic analogy to describe it, the Universe has you covered.

Whether it’s the serendipitous orientation of space objects, an age-old tale of lovers, or stars whose behavior can be…

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:

• Amyloid proteins are typically considered bad guys, playing front-and-center roles in diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

• However, for nearly two decades, the Stowers Institute in…

A vaccine designed using “DNA origami” activated more of the key immune cells needed to fight HIV than did traditional vaccines built upon protein scaffolds, a new mouse study found.

“DNA origami” refers to a precisely engineered,…