A gamma-ray burst kept astronomers on tenterhooks for 7 hours
Astronomers have caught the longest gamma ray burst ever seen, a seven-hour flash of high-energy light that looks…
Scientists make ytterbium atomic clock that could detect dark matter
Physicists have developed a highly precise and ultra-sensitive atomic clock based on ytterbium, which could test the limits…
Physicists propose tweak to Einstein’s relativity that could transform our understanding of the Big Bang
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“Why would you expect me to remember that?” Thomas Kuhn and the uses of oral history
“Why would you expect me to remember that?”: Thomas Kuhn and the uses of oral history Niels Bohr,…
Scientists Witnessed the Formation of a Mysterious Particle for the First Time
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists shot lasers at a semiconductor nano-lasagna to show…
Quantum breakthrough cuts 1,000 qubits to five, speeds computing
Scientists at California Institute of Technology and startup Oratomic have developed a method to drastically cut the number…
China’s gravity-detecting SQUID gets closer to spotting US nuclear submarines
Chinese researchers unveiled a gravity detector with world-leading precision last month, potentially expanding the military applications of the…
US fusion breakthrough cracks decades-old heat load mystery in tokamaks
New research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has indicated that the rotation of the plasma core…
Gravitational effects could shed more light on the Hubble tension – Physics World
Gravitational effects could shed more light on the Hubble tension – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…
Light can travel for billions of years yet experience no time
A photon emitted from a star a billion light-years away arrives at a telescope having experienced no time…
New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever
In a white paper posted the same day as the Caltech paper, Gidney and his collaborators announced that…
New tweak to Einstein’s relativity could transform our understanding of the Big Bang
The Big Bang is often described as the moment everything began — a point of infinite density where…