Articles by

Emily Conover

The mystery of Christiaan Huygens’ flawed telescopes may have been solved

17th century scientist Christiaan Huygens set his sights on faraway Saturn, but he may have been nearsighted....

Is this the superconductor of scientists’ dreams? A new claim faces scrutiny

LAS VEGAS — It’s a bold claim: The quest to create a superconductor that works under practical...

The standard model of particle physics passed one of its strictest tests yet

No one has ever probed a particle more stringently than this. In a new experiment, scientists measured...

Google’s quantum computer reached an error-correcting milestone

To shrink error rates in quantum computers, sometimes more is better. More qubits, that is. The quantum...

Here’s why icicles made from pure water don’t form ripples

Icicles made from pure water give scientists brain freeze. In nature, most icicles are made from water...

Water is weird. A new type of ice could help us understand why

Ice cubes float in water because they’re less dense than the liquid. But a newfound type of...

50 years ago, the United States and Soviet Union joined forces for science

A busy week for science in Moscow — Science News, June 3, 1972 U.S. and Soviet leaders …...

Scientists made a Möbius strip out of a tiny carbon nanobelt

From cylindrical nanotubes to the hollow spheres known as buckyballs, carbon is famous for forming tiny, complex...