Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars or galaxies – an astronomer explains where it’s distributed
If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central…
Surprising optics breakthrough could transform our view of the Universe
Gravitational-wave detectors may soon get a major performance boost, thanks to a new instrumentation advance led by physicist…
Scientists make ‘world-first discovery’ while experimenting with plasma: ‘Ubiquitous in nature’
It turns out that containing the same process that powers the sun can be turbulent work. Even microscale…
Did we just see dark matter? Scientists express skepticism
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope captured this gamma-ray view of our Milky Way galaxy between 2009 and 2013.…
We Are Moving Through The Universe Faster Than We Thought
If you ever feel like you are constantly on the move, that’s because you are. And not only…
Scientists Just Discovered the Secret Magnetic Behaviors of Light
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Dead stars aren’t so dead after all: The hidden force inflating white dwarfs
White dwarfs are the dense remnants left behind after a star stops producing energy through nuclear fusion, a…
What If Your Lighting Simulations Are Wrong?
December 3, 2025 New research raises questions about photometric accuracy in industry-standard formats For more than…
Search for light sterile neutrinos with two neutrino beams at MicroBooNE
A broad experimental programme has shown that the three quantum-mechanical eigenstates of neutrino flavour, νe, νμ and ντ,…
Scientists Just Tore Up a Major Particle Physics Theory
Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have found no evidence for the hypothetical “sterile neutrino,” an extra version…
New quantum device operates at room temperature for stable qubits
Stanford University researchers say they have developed a nanoscale optical device that could shift the direction of quantum…
It’s official: Scientists achieve time reflection, rewriting the rules of physics forever
Buckle up—the rules of physics just got a wild rewrite. In an announcement that’s rattling the cages of…