The largest solar telescope in the world captured swirling plasma structures on the sun’s surface. Take a look.

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New sensors can map infrasound — a deep-bass thrumming lower than what human ears can hear — emitted by a fire as its flames ...

Virga refers to rain or snow that evaporates before it reaches the ground.

Studying humanmade seismic waves is useful for a few reasons. It can help engineers construct safer buildings. City planners ...

Every year, the Joint Mathematics Meeting brings more than 5,000 math lovers together. It’s the largest math meeting in the world. In January 2019, mathematicians flocked to the meeting in Baltimore, ...

Deblina Sarkar has big dreams for the little machines that she makes. Some of her ultra-tiny electronic devices are smaller than a mote of dust. And her dreams? They’re so big that they may one day be ...

When Percy Lee has a bad day, he hangs out with his chinchilla, Rin. “She’s like emotional support for me,” says the 14-year-old. Percy, who lives near Kansas City, Kansas, and is the author’s nephew, ...

When soccer star Kylian Mbappé steps onto a field in the 2026 World Cup games, he won’t be thinking about the grass beneath his feet. Hopefully. Players and fans alike will be focusing on the game.

The universe may have something in common with a doughnut. Doughnuts have a complex shape — what mathematicians would call a “nontrivial topology.” In a universe with such a complex shape, you could ...