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Anomalies to fundamental theory have physicists trying to concoct new explanations.

Amy Gravino, one of SPARK's first participants, writes about her reaction to finding out that a rare genetic condition caused her autism.

The KATRIN experiment finds the ethereal particle has a mass less than 0.8 electron volts.

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has made the first-ever powered flight on another planet, 117 years after the Wright Brothers' historic flight on this planet.

Recent experiments and simulations are beginning to answer some fundamental questions about the origin of life.

Two research teams have used eye-tracking methods to learn how students approach complex physics problems.

In new research, physicists from Brown University and the Flatiron Institute explain the history of the universe as one of self-teaching, autodidactic algorithms.

In the last century, physicists have revealed a complex world of fundamental particles.

Brian Metzger, an astrophysicist at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, weighs in on a series of recent studies that describe a giant flare erupting from a magnetar — a neutron star with an outlandishly intense magnetic field.

New measurements confirm a fleeting subatomic particle called the muon may be ever so slightly more magnetic than theory predicts, a team of more than 200 physicists reported this week.