Hawking predicted it — Experts now say time itself will end on this date, long after humans are gone
Stephen Hawking was right all along. As the universe is currently in constant expansion, moving beyond what humans…
These Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Could Resolve The Hubble Tension
One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the Universe’s rate of expansion. Scientists know it’s…
Electrons stop acting like particles—and physics still works
Quantum physics shows that particles do not behave like solid objects with fixed locations. Instead, they act more…
New US laser technology could unlock 100,000-qubit quantum computers
Researchers in the US have developed a new technique that could allow quantum computers to scale to well…
Scientists discover ‘impossible’ quantum state at near absolute zero
Scientists have uncovered a previously unthinkable state of matter that challenges decades of assumptions about how electrons behave,…
New research challenges the cold dark matter assumption
Scientists from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay are calling into question a long-standing idea…
Unmasking the Sun’s Hidden Gamma Ray Factory
When the Sun erupts in its most violent flares, it doesn’t just hurl plasma and particles into space.…
Chinese scientists confirm 87-year-old quantum-mechanics prediction, opening new path for lighter dark matter searches
The atom Photo: VCG Chinese scientists have for the first time directly observed the Migdal effect in neutron-nucleus…
JWST interferometric imaging reveals the dusty torus obscuring the supermassive black hole of Circinus galaxy
Observations Circinus was observed (ID: 4611; PI: Lopez-Rodriguez, E.) on 20240715 and 20250427 using the Aperture Masking Interferometry…
Aliens might not have the same physics as us
If we ever meet aliens, would their physics be the same as ours? While this might seem like…
A physicist discovers that all objects, even soap bubbles, break in the same pattern.
The distribution of fragments of a shattering object becomes predictable Fragmentation has long been of interest to scientists,…
How Black Holes Slowly Starve Galaxies
Galaxies don’t always die dramatically. Sometimes they fade away, slowly strangled by the very black holes at their…