When Spacetime Crystallises, a Black Hole is Born
You already know that water freezes. At zero degrees, the disordered chaos of liquid molecules suddenly snaps into…
We Can Now Weigh Galaxies Using Dead Stars As Scales
Weighing a galaxy is not straightforward, you can’t just put it on a scale. What you can do…
Just Like Stars, Open Clusters Can Form Binary Pairs
Open star clusters are some of the most dazzling objects in the sky. The small ones contain a…
In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught the burst of neutrinos roughly three hours before any telescope on Earth saw the light arrive.
In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught the burst of neutrinos…
Twisted graphene reveals a hidden superconductivity switch
Researchers have uncovered evidence that superconductivity can be controlled by changing a material’s surrounding environment, a breakthrough that…
Scientists Discover Sperm Seem To Bypass a Fundamental Law of Physics
Human sperm cells may swim by exploiting unusual “odd elasticity” within their flagella, helping them move through highly…
ATLAS Collaboration Physicists Just Revealed the Discovery of an Entirely New Exotic Particle
Physicists with the ATLAS Collaboration report the first observation of an exotic new particle, which could help deepen…
Magnon Breakthrough Could Shrink Quantum Computers to the Size of a Penny
Researchers have shown that elusive magnetic excitations can survive far longer than previously thought, opening new possibilities for…
‘A Paradigm Shift’: Supermassive Black Hole Without a Galaxy Changes What We Thought Came First
While probing the dawn of the universe for the origins of ancient galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope…
Open data: the benefits and challenges of sharing a precious resource – Physics World
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Astrophysical Calibration Could “Autotune” Gravitational Wave Detection
Ever since gravitational waves were first confirmed in 2017 by scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory…
Physicist John Hill takes the helm at Brookhaven National Laboratory – Physics World
Physicist John Hill takes the helm at Brookhaven National Laboratory – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…