The Universe is expanding too fast and scientists still can’t explain it
An international team of astronomers has delivered one of the clearest measurements yet of how quickly the nearby…
Did a black hole just explode? This “impossible” particle may be the evidence
In 2023, scientists detected a subatomic particle called a neutrino hitting Earth with an energy level so extreme…
New method could measure quantum entanglement inside real-world materials
Scientists have always wondered whether ordinary materials are also secretly held together by quantum connections. Until now, there…
Are Neutrinos Their Own Evil Twins? Part 1: So We’re Going to Redefine “Particle”
On March 25, 1938, a 31-year-old physicist named Ettore Majorana bought a ticket for a ferry from Palermo…
The Universe’s Most Pristine Ancient Star Is Surprisingly Close : ScienceAlert
A star right here in the Milky Way galaxy is the purest ancient star astronomers have found to…
Physics Nobel Laureate John Martinis Kicks Off New Cornell Undergraduate Lecture Series
Nobel laureate John Martinis told a packed Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium on Tuesday that the secret to understanding quantum tunneling…
Meet Terence Tao and Kim Young-hoon, the masterminds eclipsing Einstein and Newton’s genius
Think Einstein and Newton still define the summit of genius? Two living outliers are quietly unsettling that peak…
A Physicist Was Testing a Vacuum—and Stumbled Upon the First Viable Blueprint for a Warp Drive
For decades, the idea of the warp drive—an incredibly cool, incredibly hypothetical cheat code for crossing impossible distances…
Milky Way’s “black hole” may not exist: New dark matter theory challenges supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the galactic centre |
Astronomers have proposed a theoretical model suggesting that the object at the centre of the Milky Way, widely…
Astronomers Just Caught a “Mega-Laser Beam” Signal from 8 Billion Light-Years Away That Refuses to Weaken or Disappear
A razor-thin radio signal struck the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa that refused to follow the usual rules…
Pairs of helium atoms are observed existing in two places at once
Researchers have demonstrated that pairs of helium atoms can exist in two places at once while remaining linked…
New particle mass measurement deepens quantum mystery
Physicists have measured the mass of one of the universe’s basic building blocks, the W boson particle. The…