Astronomers Detect What Could Be the the First-Ever “Superkilonova” in the Universe’s Explosive History
It started with a ripple. Just before dawn on 18 August 2025, deep beneath the quiet arms of…
What does oxygen in JWST’s most distant galaxies really mean?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Scientists Made a Quantum Leap and Entered a New Kind of Matter, and It Lasted Two Seconds
First proposed in the 1920s by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein, the concept of a BEC predicted…
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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