If you’re following the latest news out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—and you should be, because it’s arguably the most powerful observational tool mankind has ever created—you probably saw a few headlines recently about a galaxy that seems to be visible at two different places simultaneously.  As usual, these headlines are the result…

Imagine you’re a researcher, studying human beings in their natural environment. Throughout your career you’ve seen some variation in human size, but while gathering data one day, you come across a human who is roughly the same height as Mount Everest… That’s what happened to marine biologist Olivier Gros back in 2009, but on the…

If you’ve been near any form of media over the last few days, you’re probably aware that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has been turned back on after three years of maintenance and upgrades. If you paid closer attention to the broadcasts, you may also be aware that the upgrades allow the LHC…