KSTAR Sustains Plasma at Fusion Temperatures for 102 Seconds
Photo: sakkmesterke/Depositphotos (Not a photo of actual event) Scientists consider fusion energy the “holy grail” of clean power…
Scientists Propose That Entire Universes Can Form Inside Collapsing Stars
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Scientists confirm the universe is still expanding faster and faster
The accelerating universe is one of those facts you half-remember from science class. Galaxies are flying apart, with…
Evidence of time-reversal symmetry breaking above the charge density wave order in a kagome metal
Ye, L. et al. Hopping frustration-induced flat band and strange metallicity in a kagome metal. Nat. Phys. 20,…
Excitonic spin torque in a magnetic semiconductor
Chernikov, A. et al. Exciton binding energy and nonhydrogenic Rydberg series in monolayer WS2. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113,…
US’ new FIDDLE can capture split-second atomic changes under pressure
A specialized instrument called the flexible imaging diffraction diagnostic for laser experiments (FIDDLE) has been designed to capture…
The Amaterasu Particle May Not Be a Proton at All, New Research Suggests
In 2021, scientists detected a cosmic ray entering Earth’s atmosphere with as much kinetic energy as a fast-moving…
Orbital Hall conductivity and relaxation in thin films with variable disorder
Žutić, I., Fabian, J. & Das Sarma, S. Spintronics: fundamentals and applications. Rev. Mod. Phys. 76, 323–410 (2004).…
The Galaxy’s Spin Is Hiding in the Hum of Gravitational Waves
Picture the Milky Way not as a silent pinwheel of stars but as something that quietly sings. Scattered…
Strange ‘little red dots’ may be growing supermassive black holes
Little red dots have puzzled astronomers ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered them in 2022. These…
Success! Physicists Build The World’s First Clocks Powered by Atomic Nuclei : ScienceAlert
A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time. Using…
The Little Red Dots That Turned Out to Be Black Holes in Disguise
Sometimes the universe hands astronomers a single object so perfect that it cracks open a mystery that has…