On a typical day at the world’s biggest laser, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California, you can find scientists casually making star-like conditions using 192 high-powered lasers ...

When I was a kid, I always loved those shorts on shows like Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers that went to factories to show how things like crayons were made. Seeing how stuff is made is totally ...

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A lot of Americans are enduring a crash course in an economic term that was, until very recently, pretty obscure: tariffs. Economics can get pretty complicated, and knowing the ins and outs of tariff ...

At last we know just how much the cosmos weighs. The answer shows that theories of the Universe’s origin are spot on, says cosmologist Jeff Peterson. Trouble is, we still haven’t a clue what most of ...