10% drop in CO₂ absorption seen during record 2023 marine heat wave
Sea surface temperatures on 29 October 2023. The colors show how much the monthly temperature deviates from the…
Stressed Ice Generates Electricity, Researchers Find
Don’t mess with ice. When it’s stressed, ice can get seriously sparky. Scientists have discovered that ordinary ice—the…
Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Usually, when something gets warmed up, heat tends to…
Probing stress and magnetism at high pressures with two-dimensional quantum sensors
Doherty, M. W. et al. Electronic properties and metrology applications of the diamond NV-center under pressure. Phys. Rev.…
Dark matter could be turning giant planets into black holes
More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and…
Quantum ‘curvature’ warps electron flow, hinting at new electronics possibilities
Optical image of two patterned Hall bar devices oriented along orthogonal directions on the SrTiO3 surface. The green…
Worlds Largest Neutrino Detector Is Collecting Data In China
To say that neutrinos aren’t the easiest particles to study would be a bit of an understatement. Outside…
Massive stars in metal-poor environment often have close partners, scientists discover
Massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Of the stars studied, seventy percent (the red diamonds) appear to…
CERN Deploys Cutting-Edge AI in “Impossible” Hunt for Higgs Decay
The Higgs boson gives particles mass, but its links to the lighter quarks are still largely untested. CMS…
Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds | Physics
A quarter of state secondary schools in England will start the new term with no dedicated physics teacher,…
New theory: could early, supermassive stars explain the Universe?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Radio emission observations reveal delayed outflow from a tidal disruption event
Radio light curves of WTP 14adeqka in selected frequencies from archival and targeted VLA observations (main panel) along…