Stories by dnetesn

Scientists observe a new quantum particle with properties of ball lightning

When Destructive Behavior Makes Biological Sense (2015)

When Did Americans Stop Marrying Cousins? Ask the World’s Largest Family Tree

Why Women Choose Differently at Work

Unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map

Virtual Reality Poses the Same Riddles as the Cosmic Multiverse

How we discovered the strange physics of jets from supermassive black holes

The Sacred, Spherical Cows of Physics (2014)

New insight into nanopatterning diamond

Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile

NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet's atmosphere

Harvard’s Own Poet-Physician

Researchers study flower that catapults pollen

Why Women Choose Differently at Work

A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home (2015)

Man-made earthquake risk reduced if fracking is 895m from faults

Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial (2015)

I Built a Stable Planetary System with 416 Planets in the Habitable Zone

New understanding of ocean turbulence could improve climate models

Are Humans the Greatest Things Created by the Human Hand? (2013)