Why We Can’t Walk Through Walls Even Though Atoms Are Mostly Empty
It’s a fair question: atoms are made mostly of empty space, so why does solid matter feel, well……
Physicists Introduce Concept of Neutrino Laser
Super-cooling radioactive atoms could produce a laser-like neutrino beam, according to a duo of physicists from MIT and…
Physicists see heat move as a wave after 90 years of theory
Physicists at MIT have achieved a major feat, capturing a bizarre quantum effect called second sound on film,…
Gravitational Waves Were Discovered 10 Years Ago – Here’s How They Changed Everything
Ten years ago, on September 14, 2015, at 9:50 am UTC, our planet was compressed and then stretched…
Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos | MIT News
At any given moment, trillions of particles called neutrinos are streaming through our bodies and every material in…
Why ice is slippery: Scientists overturn 200 years of assumptions
Every winter, countless people step onto icy sidewalks and suddenly find themselves sliding. For generations, the explanation was…
A Supercomputer Just Created the Largest Universe Simulation Ever
Last month, a team of researchers put the then-fastest supercomputer in the world to work on a rather…
Physicists Created a Time Crystal That We Can Actually See : ScienceAlert
Physicists have just made a new breakthrough in the enigmatic realm of time crystals. For the first time,…
“It’s Its Own New Thing” – Scientists Discover New State of Quantum Matter
UC Irvine physicists have discovered a new phase of quantum matter with unusual electron-hole pairings. The material’s resilience…
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…
DESI Hints Dark Energy Isn’t What We Thought
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope…
Wooden walls can withstand 100 kilonewtons of pressure, research finds
Swiss researchers have overturned the assumption that windowed timber walls offer no structural support after they proved that…