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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...