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Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis. The Large Hadron Collider hasn’t found any new physics. Now what? Kristina Armitage/Quanta Magazine Introduction In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the

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Introduction Last week, my teenage son spent six hours rewriting the opening paragraph of his college essay. Six hours. On one paragraph. Watching him agonize over every word choice, I saw myself—and realized how deeply I’d passed down my perfectionist tendencies. That’s when it hit me: my pursuit of flawlessness wasn’t making me excellent. It

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Bluetooth is a miracle of modern technology. Unlike Wi-Fi communication, Bluetooth enables devices to communicate directly with one another via radio waves. You don't need transmitters or even an internet connection, just a digital handshake between gadgets. This simplicity frees up manufacturers to build the

A team of geologists from China and Australia has found evidence that episodic eruptions from vast marine large igneous provinces (LIPs) drove repeated lower-order extinction events in the Triassic period. Early Earth. Image credit: Peter Sawyer / Smithsonian Institution. “Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth,” said Dr. Jian-Jun Fan and colleague from Jilin

Image of the Day for January 27, 2026 Weeks of intense rain overwhelmed rivers and reservoirs, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. NASA Earth Observatory Jan 27, 2026 View more Images of the Day: Residents of southern Mozambique who live or farm near rivers are accustomed to heading to higher ground during the wet season.

In the age of social media, it is easy to see how things become accepted as fact simply by being repeated enough. But this is not a new phenomenon. Some so-called “facts” about history and even science have circulated for centuries, shaping popular understandings of people and events. As with social media today, it is

Brezilyalı araştırmacıların geliştirdiği yeni bir yapay zekâ modeli, sesli mesajlarınızı dinleyerek depresyonda olup olmadığınızı tespit ediyor ve ruh hâlinizi analiz edebiliyor. Günlük hayatımızda fark etmeden yaptığımız alışkanlıklar, ruh sağlığımız hakkında sandığımızdan çok daha fazla ipucu taşıyor olabilir. Yeni bir araştırma, WhatsApp’ta gönderdiğimiz basit sesli mesajların bile depresyonun erken belirtilerini ortaya çıkarabileceğini gösteriyor. PLOS Mental Health

Italian designer Valentino Garavani, whose luxurious dresses adorned some of the world's most elegant women from Jackie Kennedy to Audrey Hepburn, has died aged 93, his foundation said on Monday. Valentino's death comes just months after the passing of another Italian style legend, Giorgio Armani, and there were tributes from the global fashion world and