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Quanta Magazine

Why can't we find Planet Nine?

How artificial intelligence can supercharge the search for new particles

Swarming bacteria create an 'impossible' superfluid

Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn

The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra

World’s Simplest Animal Reveals Hidden Diversity

Dark Matter Gets a Reprieve in New Analysis

Do Brains Operate at a Tipping Point?

Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter

Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws

Unexpected ‘Germline’ Plant Cells May Shield New Generations

Popular Science

Dust to dust: How Earth’s most advanced observatory is unraveling our origins

Gravitational waves could solve a cosmological crisis within five years—or shake physics to its core

Two NASA spacecraft died in one week—and there's a connection

Voyager 2 is almost outside the sun's protective bubble

In the hunt for aliens, satellites may light the way

Where are all the aliens? Struggling and hustling just like us

Tardigrades that crash-landed on the moon may still be alive, but they’re not having fun

Scienceline

Does a theory of everything exist?

Ancient humans may have shaped the planet with fire and rice

Raiders of the lost bark

Once deemed brutal, a decades-old therapy is helping doctors fight depression

Urban oasis (Video)

Going the distance: how NASA launches spacecraft so far on so little

Robo-zebrafish learn to make friends (video)

We're flushing energy down the toilet

If you can sing, can you talk? (podcast)

Forever young: how society might adapt to longer lives

The Christian Science Monitor

Ringing success: How Cassini brought Saturn's swirling mysteries into focus (cover story)

Fusion breakthrough explained: What are quarks again?

Robot communication: It's more than just talk

As space junk soars, science turns to nature for ideas

Looking for leaders in physics education? Try New Jersey

Cyberwar's new front: What we know about latest global attacks

Unbreakable: China doubles down on quantum internet

Bears Ears rift reveals monumental federal-county chasm