People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

Research on human physiology and on prevention, treatments, and cures for disease relies on model systems with sufficient complexity, and nonhuman primates are used in biomedical research to meet ...

This activity is part of the Science Friday Sun Camp collection! Since you can’t visit the Sun right now—it is about 93 million miles away after all—you need to rely on pictures taken by telescopes ...

From the outside, the high-speed collisions of atomic nuclei inside particle accelerators like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may seem like they have very little in common with more mundane ...

MUCH OF THE art of medicine involves working out, through detailed questioning and physical examination, which disease a given patient has contracted. Far harder, but no less desirable, would be ...

The prevailing Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model, based on the Big Bang and subsequent inflation, faces challenges including the inability to explain the universe's homogeneity and the singularity ...