Scientists Stunned by Gamma-Ray Signals from the Milky Way – Is Dark Matter or Pulsars the Real Culprit?
For over a decade, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has mapped a mysterious excess of gamma-ray light in…
What Is A Gravity Assist?
As this is written, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission is taking images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS,…
Could This Tell Us What Happened Before The Big Bang?
The evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming, yet we cannot truly describe what happens in that event.…
Dream of quantum internet inches closer after breakthrough helps beam information over fiber-optic networks
Scientists have built a new kind of molecular qubit that could help connect quantum computers over existing telecommunications…
What’s Driving Dark Energy? – Universe Today
To be fair, all scientific models are in some sense wrong. They’re all approximations of reality. They’re all…
Is the Universe Infinite? – Universe Today
The surface of the Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size…
Symmetry method gives clearer view of how quantum noise spreads
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University have reported a major advance in…
micro reviews of recent books – Physics World
Breakfast physics, delving into quantum 2.0, the science of sound, an update to everything: micro reviews of recent…
Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth violet lasers enabled by UV-transparent materials
Ludlow, A. D., Boyd, M. M., Ye, J., Peik, E. & Schmidt, P. O. Optical atomic clocks. Rev.…
95% of the universe is invisible. Here’s why that should fill us with wonder
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Scientists Discover New Quantum ‘Pinball’ State of Matter Where Electrons Break the Rules
Researchers at Florida State University have uncovered a previously unknown quantum phase of matter in which electrons behave simultaneously…
JWST Discovers Massive Black Hole in Galaxy Just 570 Million Years After Big Bang
A discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is shedding light on the rapid growth of supermassive…