Scientists Finally ‘See’ a Proton Move Through Water, and It Only Took 200 Years
For over two centuries, scientists have known that water transports a positive charge through protons. But they had…
Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array
Gisin, N., Ribordy, G., Tittel, W. & Zbinden, H. Quantum cryptography. Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 145–195 (2002). Article …
Gravitational wave cry of baby black hole kicked away from its birth site heard for 1st time
Astronomers have for the first time measured the speed and direction of a newborn black hole, thanks to…
Ask Ethan: Where does cosmic dust come from?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres
image: Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at…
Scientists say there is a 90% chance of witnessing a black hole explosion in next 10 years
According to the theory by Stephen Hawking, black holes emit particles and radiation, which leads to them gradually…
Physicists Made a Time Crystal We Can Actually See
Of all the eccentricities of the quantum realm, time crystals—atomic arrangements that repeat certain motions over time—might be…
Dirac waves gain new control in terahertz devices
Can you squeeze light into a space hundreds of times smaller than its natural wavelength? It sounds impossible,…
A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe
A black hole unlike any seen before has been spotted in the early universe. It’s huge and appears…
It’s quieter than emptiness — Big-Bang echoes point to a two-billion-light-year hollow
Do you know that the most universally agreed-upon theory about the creation of the cosmos itself remains the…
Exploding Primordial Black Holes Could ‘Rewrite the History of the Universe’
It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole theories. Yesterday, LIGO confirmed the famed physicist’s prediction…
US team sees tiny spinning waves called magnons moving in magnets
A research team has achieved the first direct observation of magnon spin currents, a critical development for the…