Although the Juno mission was expected to last only a few years, the spacecraft is still going strong despite operating in Jupiter’s intense radiation belts. Bolton explains how the Juno team has ...

Too often in science, the people producing results and advancing our collective understanding are little more than names on publications. You might be lucky enough to see them speak at a conference, ...

But the wonders of the internet has brought an entire economy built on outrage and conspiracy theories, enabling even the ...

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), roughly 4 miles out from campus, is a national lab run by the Department of Energy and yet remains a relatively elusive branch of Princeton’s research ...

But when he pitched the idea to his teenage son, Whiteson realized that approach was a bit boring and decided to spice things up using an alien landing. At the heart of the book is a new equation for ...

Gold: the stuff of treasure hunts, fairy tales, alchemy and wedding rings. Gold is a metal, but, surprisingly, we know little about its origins. How is gold made? How did it get on earth? Why is gold ...

How much science do you remember from school? Do you know how a simple electric motor works, or what the Doppler effect is? Basic physics is taught early in schools, but is easily forgotten. To learn ...

After fifty years of debate, Dr Geraint Pratten from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham ...

Zeeya Merali is a science writer and author of A Big Bang in a Little Room. She also edits the Foundational Questions Institute website, where she blogs and cohosts a physics podcast. A version of ...

Despite what you’ve read, most of them didn’t resist.