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…
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…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…
Dark matter could be turning giant planets into black holes
More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and…
Why the Moon is brighter than the Sun (in gamma-rays)
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Scientists Build Quantum Computer That Snaps Together Like LEGOs
By linking smaller superconducting modules like building blocks, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign achieved near-perfect qubit…
In a 1st, study shows ice generates electricity when bent | The study is published in Nature Physics | Inshorts – Inshorts
In a 1st, study shows ice generates electricity when bent | The study is published in Nature Physics…
“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…
Herwig Schopper obituary | Particle physics
The German physicist Herwig Schopper, who has died aged 101, was director general of Cern, the European Organisation…
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…