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Scientists completing an advanced millimeter telescope scheduled to be installed at the Simons Observatory in Chile next year have turned to metamaterials, a broad class of manufactured materials composed of structures that are finer than the wavelength of visible light, radio waves and other types of electromagnetic radiation.

Biologists are uncovering how tiny timekeepers in our cells might govern body size, lifespan and aging.

New radio-based observatories could soon detect ultrahigh-energy neutrinos, opening a new window on extreme cosmic physics.

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.