A New Theory Says Gravity May Come From Entropy—Which Could Lead to a Unified Theory of Physics
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be…
Remembering Gladys West, who used Einstein to create GPS
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
World’s largest particle collider reveals collective nature of quark soup
Scientists have found new evidence that a pattern of “flow” observed in particles streaming from heavy ion collisions…
New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe
New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light…
Dark Matter’s Earliest Moments May Have Been Far More Extreme Than We Thought
Dark matter map (2021) by the Dark Energy Survey using weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections…
Energy may seem to disappear, but there’s a law against that
atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains…
Wilczek’s Multiverse | Revisiting the peaks of Nobel laureate Chen-ning Yang’s remarkable career
In the latest instalment of his exclusive series for the South China Morning Post, American theoretical physicist and…
Focused Energy charts a course to commercial viability – Physics World
Laser fusion: Focused Energy charts a course to commercial viability – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…
Dark Energy Survey scientists release new analysis of how the universe expands
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration is releasing results that, for the first time, combine all six years…
Portugal’s hypersonic test ‘generates flow hotter than Sun’s surface’
Portugal has entered the small group of countries with experimental capability in hypersonic research after completing its first…
Magnon-Cherenkov effect from a picosecond strain pulse
Flebus, B. et al. The 2024 magnonics roadmap. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 36, 363501 (2024). Article Google Scholar …
This Lamp Visualizes the Perpetual Electromagnetic Storm in Which We Live
“You are standing in a storm,” says YouTuber Rootkid. “You just can’t see it. But what if you…