Your Guide to the Anomalous Universe
The universe is a deeply vexing place. Every breakthrough we make in our understanding of it begets more mysteries about how all this (gestures wildly) actually happened. In the new…
Our First Look at a Newborn Great White Shark
A T. rex fossil named Trix.Photo: Dean Mouhtaropoulos (Getty Images) Scaly, feathered, toothed, or beaked—long-necked, spike-tailed, tiny, or gargantuan—dinosaurs are a wildly diverse group. But certain dinos stand above the…
Mathematicians Have Just Reversed the Sprinkler
For 141 years, physicists like Richard Feynman have puzzled over a question of fluid flow: how would a sprinkler rotate if it were underwater, sucking in the stuff instead of…