Stories by Clara Moskowitz

How the JWST’s cosmic images are made

Recent theoretical and observational results have revealed new secrets about these shadowy objects, with deep implications for more than just black holes themselves

We do not have a theory to tell us everything about how a black hole works, but new research is shedding a least some light on one of their many mysteries.

Black holes, wormholes, entanglement, Einstein, mysterious islands and new science that sees how the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside.

For the first time, researchers have sequenced all 3,117,275,501 bases of our genetic code

Graphics show how the two weather extremes will more often pair up

A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight

This leading cancer affects some populations and regions much more than others

Paleontologists from a small number of countries control much of the world’s fossil data

From brave exploration to just another playground for the 0.0000001 percent

From Neolithic constructions to atomic clocks, how humans measure time reveals what we value most

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will travel to a special spot where the gravity from Earth and the sun is balanced

Physicists have wondered if neutrino particles come in a mysterious fourth variety. Now new experimental findings complicate the question

The long-delayed successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is set to take flight in December

The past two decades have seen some of the most extreme dry periods in U.S. history

Most of our neighboring planets have magnetic fields, but scientists do not fully understand how they arise

A new study found large species are rare, but those with fewer individuals are abundant

A new book gives science-based advice for parenting kids to be generous, kind antiracists

Elite mathematicians tend to pass their prestige down to advisees

A photography project reveals the allure of equations in mathematicians’ blackboard work

Particles called muons are behaving weirdly, and that could mean a huge discovery.

A new experiment could catch invisible particles that previous detectors have not

Physicists have new ideas about why the energy of empty space is so much weaker than it is predicted to be

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter celebrated its 15th year circling Mars