What if the universe’s secret wasn’t hidden in a black hole or trapped in quantum foam, but coiled up literally in a tortilla? That’s the taste of the most recent cosmic controversy, as ...

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Rohan Arni, a student at High Technology High School, is one of 300 students to be named a 2026 Regeneron Science Talent ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...

Image made with elements from Canva. It’s March 14, or Pi Day, that day of the year where we celebrate the ratio that makes a circle a circle. The Greek letter that represents it is such a part of our ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Like the artist, the scientist is a lover of nature. Just as the artist is restricted only by his imagination and his facility with his chisel or brush, the scientist is restricted only by his ...