What Happened Before The Big Bang? New Approach To Einstein’s Equations Might Help Us Find Out
The evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming, but we cannot describe what goes on in that event.…
Confirmation Of Record 220 PeV Cosmic Neutrino Hit On Earth
Neutrinos are exceedingly common in the Universe, with billions of them zipping around us throughout the day from…
Experimental confirmation of secondary flows within granular media
Experimental setup The experimental flume is divided into three sections: a reservoir to supply incoming grains, the flow…
China launches Juno, the world’s most powerful detector for ‘ghost particles’
China launched the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (Juno), the world’s largest detector for elusive “ghost particles” called neutrinos,…
China’s Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory enters operation
This stitched photo shows the central detector of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory under construction in Jiangmen, South…
Scientists crack a 60-year-old quantum mystery
Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have created a novel pathway into the study of…
Could black hole mergers finally solve the Hubble tension? Probably not
For years, cosmologists have been struggling with the “Hubble tension,” a disagreement between measurements of the present-day expansion…
Quantum oscillations in a dipolar excitonic insulator
Li, G. et al. Two-dimensional Fermi surfaces in Kondo insulator SmB6. Science 346, 1208–1212 (2014). PubMed CAS Google…
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Runs On A Bendix G-15 In 2025
The Bendix G-15 refurbished by [David at Usagi Electric] is well known as the oldest digital computer in…
‘Ten Martini’ Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals
But in some ways, the proof was a bit unsatisfying. Jitomirskaya and Avila had used a method that…
Why can’t we walk through walls if atoms are mostly empty space?
In movies, people phase through walls like ghosts — think Vision from “Avengers” or Harry Potter going through…
Physicists Discover a New Equilibrium State in Magnetic Fields and Plasma
What do solar flares, lab-grown plasma, and a nebula 25,000 light-years away have in common? A cosmic twist,…