Articles by

Emily Conover

Thunderstorms churn up a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays 

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view...

Physicists just discovered the rarest particle decay ever

It’s the rarest particle decay ever discovered. Scientists have clinched the case for a special type of...

Why this physicist is bringing thermodynamics to the quantum age

Picture Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airships. Steam-powered robots crowd the streets, mingling with...

A neutrino mass mismatch could shake cosmology’s foundations

As the youthful universe congealed under the pull of gravity, matter knotted itself into galaxies, galaxy clusters...

The Large Hadron Collider exposes quarks’ quantum entanglement

Quantum entanglement has made its way to the top. Scientists have measured the strange quantum phenomenon of...

How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system 

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed....

A quantum computer corrected its own errors, improving its calculations 

For the first time, a quantum computer has improved its results by repeatedly fixing its own mistakes...

In an epic cosmology clash, rival scientists begin to find common ground 

The biggest clash in cosmology might be inching closer to resolution, thanks to the James Webb Space...