Scientists achieve the impossible by creating matter from empty space
Something has been lurking in empty space, and for the first time, physicists may have caught it leaving…
Scientists Say Some Black Holes Are Born From Other Black Holes
Since LIGO’s Nobel-winning discovery of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime—the U.S.-based detector has been picking up on hundreds of…
Astronomers Use a Neutron Star Merger to Measure Cosmic Expansion
For roughly a century, scientists have known that our Universe is in a constant state of expansion. Known…
A supermassive black hole called RBH-1, weighing at least ten million Suns, appears to have been flung from its galaxy and is now racing through space at nearly 1,000 kilometres per second, leaving a 200,000-light-year wake of newborn stars
A thin streak of gas and young stars trailing a distant galaxy is the wake of a supermassive…
We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
Thamires Lima, a research professor in chemical engineering at Drexel University, studies the properties of thick, viscous liquids…
An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet
This final measured value came in incredibly close to Einstein’s general relativity predictions, carrying a tiny margin of…
Physicist Explains How to “Bend it Like Beckham”
It contributed to soccer legend David Beckham’s record number of goals on direct free kicks, and entered popular…
Magnetic quantum material enables one-way electrical transport
Scientists at Penn State and Saint Louis University have demonstrated that a magnetic quantum material can naturally produce…
New study explains why some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise
Some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise, such as from ventilation systems, heat pumps, wind turbines and…
Meet Sabrina Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her, NASA wanted her, but she chose physics
Most children dream of flying a plane. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built one. By the time she was 14,…
Force-based reading and writing of individual single-atom magnets
Herein, we utilize holmium (Ho) adatoms on MgO as single-atom magnet, a system that is regarded as a…
She Turned Down A $1.1 Million Offer, Meet The Physicist Compared To Einstein
When Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski was a teenager, she wasn’t just studying science – she was building an airplane,…