I have absolutely no authority to do this, but I am going to do it anyway: 2026 will be the year of the galaxy. Not only will the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time get fully ...

Real talk? The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton and I consider ourselves to be pretty smart people—but scientifically minded, we are not. So when we received a pitch to review and speak with ...

Did you know that, in physics, we have beauty factories? This has nothing to do with art or glamour. Instead, I am talking about experiments where electrons and their antimatter counterparts, ...

In 1998, astronomers made a startling announcement. Space-time, the unified phenomenon that comprises our universe and that was previously understood to be expanding, was actually not just growing, ...

From left to right: Terri McCullough, Barry J. Bowman, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive, Daniel Nane Alejandrez, Aviv Elor. The UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association is ...

Less than 24 hours after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University, a furious left-wing professor took to social media to criticize the slain ...

The Stern-Gerlach experiment is, in my opinion, truly the first test that forced the results of quantum mechanics onto the scientific community. Proposed by Otto Stern and conducted by Walther Gerlach ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is right to remind us that in 1922, Germany was the global epicentre of science and that this pre-eminence was destroyed by the Nazi government. In the 1930s, British and US ...

When it comes to the phrase space-time, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ponders what is in a hyphen? Space answers to the question “where?”, time to the question “when?”. Space-time answers to the question ...

In response to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s article on the research into dark matter: dark matter seems to me to be “aether with mass”. It can’t have any viscosity, for example, because if it did, ...