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After surviving the descent, the rover sent back this picture from the Martian surface.

Cygnus X-1, one of the first identified black holes, is much weightier than expected, raising new questions about how such objects form.

Researchers in Japan are enlisting an army of citizens to explore how storms on Earth create extreme bursts of radiation.

Experiment connects three devices with entangled photons, demonstrating a key technique that could enable a future quantum internet.

David Spergel, director of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics, and others explain what the shape of the universe tells us about its past and its future.

Simons Senior Fellow and Brown University cosmologist Stephon Alexander joins other scientists in describing how engaging in a creative pursuit can stimulate creativity and foster boldness and tenacity in the lab and beyond.

Nothing could have prepared physicists for the discovery of the muon: an unstable particle with the same charge, but hundreds of times the mass, of the electron.

Eighteenth-century mathematics of soil transport helps uncover hidden order in disordered systems, such as tissues and glasses.

These three big ideas are all connected — and a demonstration with water and an LED can show how.

Computational biologists used an algorithm meant to model human language to instead predict how viruses could evolve to evade the immune system.