Silicon vibrations add a new twist to dark matter research and quantum computing
At Texas A&M University, experimental particle physicist Dr. Rupak Mahapatra spends his days chasing some of the faintest…
Antarctica’s ice sheet losses could rebound — if history can repeat itself
Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next…
JWST observations reveal massive helium clouds escaping from exoplanet WASP-107 b
Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the…
67 million-year-old fossil reveals the origin of freshwater fish hearing
A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in…
Fusion reactors may be the key to uncovering dark matter particles
Nuclear fusion is often framed as a future source of clean energy. A new theoretical study is looking…
Astronomers discover spacetime drag around a supermassive black hole — as predicted by Einstein
A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds…
Researchers reveal nuclear ‘island’ where magic numbers break down
Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually…
A single protein decides when human cells grow old, study finds
Cells are not immortal, and that is a good thing. After a certain number of divisions, many human…
Fossil tracks in Italy record a turtle stampede from 80 million years ago
In the spring of 2019, free climbers scaling the risky cliffs of Monte Cònero on Italy’s Adriatic coast…
AI uncovers Earth’s earliest life from 3.3 billion years ago
Deep in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, traces of ancient life still linger, even when every cell has…
10,000-year-old impact crater in China reveals meteorite strike equal to 40 atomic bombs
A quiet hillside in southern China holds the mark of something that arrived with enormous force from far…
The universe is not and could never be a simulation, study finds
Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to…