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Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

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Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with ...

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Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

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Scientists have long believed that foam behaves like glass, with bubbles locked into place. New simulations reveal that ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

We hope you enjoyed this look back at the last 100 years of television in science. From the early days of physicists ...