Ask Ethan: Could our whole Universe be a black hole’s interior?
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Laser-excited thorium-229 pioneers major breakthrough in dark matter detection
Key TakeawaysScientists have used laser-excited thorium-229 to probe for ultralight dark matter, even without a fully built nuclear…
New gravitational waves reveal black hole with ‘forbidden’ mass | Explained
The complex pattern of gravitational waves emitted by a pair of black holes circling each other before merging.…
New study tackles dynamics of common—and difficult—sailing maneuver
The Courant Institute’s Christiana Mavroyiakoumou, above at Central Park’s Conservatory Water, and the University of Michigan’s Silas Alben…
Expanding the material design space at the nanoscale
Building blocks of DNA moiré superlattices. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2025). DOI:10.1038/s41565-025-01976-3 Researchers are creating new moiré materials at…
The Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever
In 2016, scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made history with the first-ever detection of Gravitational…
CP violation in baryons is seen for the first time at CERN – Physics World
CP violation in baryons is seen for the first time at CERN – Physics World Skip to main…
Unusual Plasma Waves Above Jupiter’s North Pole
July 16, 2025• Physics 18, s87 A spacecraft observes a new oscillation mode in the low-density plasma. NASA;…
Electric control of magnetic exchange in a molecular spin triangle
Cu3 crystallizes in the P31c non-centrosymmetric polar space group32. Each copper(II) ion is coordinated by four nitrogen and…
A sensitive MOKE and optical Hall effect technique at visible wavelengths: insights into the Gilbert damping
The experimental setup is based on the polar MOKE geometry illustrated in Fig. 1b. It consists of two orthogonally…
New discovery at Cern could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter
Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself moments after the big bang? A new finding at Cern on the…
Goodbye to gravity as we know it — Quantum wave makes spacetime tremble
For over a century, physicists have wrestled with a contradiction at the heart of modern science. While quantum…