This Glowing Bottle Holds Real Lightning, and Here’s How It Was Made
A YouTube creator has managed to turn a familiar idiom into a literal experiment. Using a particle accelerator,…
“Dark photon” theory, if correct, would completely upend physics
For centuries, most scientists have shared the belief that light behaves as both a wave and a particle.…
Chinese team tackles a century-old puzzle in physics: can we travel back in time?
Chinese researchers have proposed a simple yet powerful theory to explain one of physics’ oldest puzzles: why time…
These ‘impossible’ galaxies are breaking the Universe as we know it
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on Christmas Day 2021, astronomers hoped it would revolutionise our…
Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist
In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for his work on…
Dear D-Wave Quantum Computing Fans, Mark Your Calendars for January 7
D-Wave (QBTS) shares rallied as much as 20% on Monday after the quantum computing company announced plans of…
Fusion Reactors Might Create Dark Matter Particles, Physicists Show : ScienceAlert
Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit. An…
Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments | MIT News
In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence…
YouTuber captures ‘lightning in a bottle’ using particle accelerator
The phrase “lightning in a bottle” is usually used as a metaphor for something rare or impossible to…
Israeli study reveals how spinning particles self-assemble
A new study by the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University has found that particles…
Scientists bend magnetic fields around real-world objects to create ‘invisibility cloaks’
For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding…
In What Could Be A First, A Gravitational Wave Event Appears To Have Been Gravitationally Lensed
In just a decade, gravitational wave observatories have changed astronomy. In this short time, we have accumulated hundreds…