How to explain the universe — for beginners
ILLUSTRATION BY PHIL HACKETT Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who is currently working with the Spanish…
A dense web of neutral gas in a galaxy proto-cluster post-reionization
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A Massive Underground Sphere Is Trying to Catch the Universe’s Ghosts—and Reveal New Physics
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is on the…
Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Quantum mechanics controls reality on the smallest levels, but when scaled up, it’s often difficult to gauge how…
Fusion Ignition Breakthrough: Energy Researchers Report Tokamak Experiments That Exceed Mysterious ‘Plasma Density Limit’
In a potential new milestone for fusion energy research, researchers in China report achieving a state once only…
New Research Reveals how Gravitational Waves Could be Used to Decode Dark Matter
The discovery of Gravitational Waves (GWs) in 2015 confirmed a prediction made by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity…
China achieves new milestone in ‘artificial sun’ experiment
Researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) say they have managed to operate the reactor beyond…
High-efficiency broadband active metasurfaces via reversible metal electrodeposition
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Scientists Produced a Particle of Light That Simultaneously Accessed 37 Different Dimensions
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This Starless Monster Black Hole May Be Older Than the First Galaxies
A recent study published on arXiv has revealed a black hole so massive and so ancient that it…
Alain Aspect, Nobel laureate in physics: ‘Einstein was so smart that he would have had to recognize quantum entanglement’ | Science
Alain Aspect, 78, learned “the real” quantum physics in Cameroon. Not at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris,…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down
SWITZERLAND – JANUARY 25: The Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which will…