October will deliver a solid reason for city dwellers to seek out dark, quiet corners—an enclave of backyard astronomers.

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Pineapple on pizza and rain on weekends shouldn’t exist on Earth, yet somehow they do. And a mysterious cosmic particle that was detected in 2022 shouldn’t have made it to our planet either, but it ...

Forget climbing stairs: The best new robot vacuums at IFA 2026 pack crime-scene-style ultraviolet lights, 356-degree steam, and serious upgrades to raw cleaning power.

Much of the research on exposure to the World Trade Center residue has focused on emergency workers, but people there when they were young say their health is at risk, too. By Joseph Goldstein Jacob ...

A search for one mysterious particle unexpectedly revealed evidence for two different structures that may belong to the bizarre family of exotic subatomic particles known as XYZ states. The findings ...

Particle astrophysics is a research area at the interface of particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology that investigates fundamental particles and their interactions using astrophysical sources ...

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Dark matter is an elusive, untouchable substance that binds galaxies together. A shadowy signal could signify the first time a particle has ever been detected. At an underground lab in South Dakota, ...

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After decades of debate, the scientific case is clear for Europe’s Future Circular Collider, a colossal successor to the Large Hadron Collider. But transforming this megaproject from vision to reality ...