Scientists trace rare nuclei ‘island’ where physics rules break apart
Researchers at CERN have made a great step forward in revealing how atomic nuclei behave after they mapped…
Wilczek’s Multiverse | Why it is time for the world to think about the 3 faces of time
In the eighth instalment of his exclusive monthly series for the South China Morning Post, American theoretical physicist…
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…
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 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,…
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…
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,…
JWST May Have Found The First Direct Evidence of a Primordial Black Hole : ScienceAlert
A tiny blob of red light spotted at the beginning of the Universe could represent the first direct…
German scientists debunk 200-year-old theory on why ice is slippery
Researchers in Germany have challenged a 200-year-old assumption and revealed that pressure and friction are not responsible for…
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…
Scientists Finally Crack Why Ice Is Really Slippery—Upending a 200-Year-Old Physics Explanation
For nearly two centuries, students have been taught that ice is slippery because pressure or friction melts a…