Scientists Use Rare ‘Einstein Cross’ to Discover Unexpectedly Mature Stars in 8 Billion-Year-Old Galaxy
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have used a rare “Einstein Cross” gravitational lens to investigate a young galaxy…
Pixelated quantum-dot superlattice LEDs | Nature
Rainò, G. et al. Superfluorescence from lead halide perovskite quantum dot superlattices. Nature 563, 671–675 (2018). Article ADS …
What Happens When Light Goes Boom? Part 1: The Scientist Who Stared at a Glow
I want you to imagine a scene. It’s the red carpet. It’s the night of the Oscars, or…
How pictures can help school students learn quantum physics – Physics World
How pictures can help school students learn quantum physics – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…
Two supermassive black holes are now heading for a Universe-shaking collision
Astronomers have spotted what appears to be two supermassive black holes locked in a death spiral at the…
“Learning Gives Our Metamaterials the Ability to Evolve”: Scientists Invent Intelligent Materials That Learn, Change Shape, and Move on Their Own
University of Amsterdam researchers have unveiled a new type of human-made ‘metamaterials’ that can learn, change shape, and…
How physicists found a new type of magnet hiding in plain sight
On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of…
Shattering Einstein’s block universe rescues the flow of time
Einstein’s theory of relativity appears to drain time of its most familiar feature: its flow. If spacetime is…
Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’ | Science
Michel Mayor’s life could have ended in one of the worst deaths imaginable. In 1968, this Swiss mountaineering…
Magnetism Frozen in Time. – Universe Today
Stars are not the serene, unchanging beacons they appear to be. Over billions of years they swell, convulse,…
Scientists Figured Out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding, But the Answer Is Troubling
You probably heard that the universe is constantly expanding. There’s a bit of an update to that: it’s…
Dark matter is invisible, but it’s the most common stuff in the Universe. These scientists just made a detailed map of it
Dark matter makes up 27% of all matter in the Universe. So why is it so hard to…