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…
China’s superconducting quantum prototype ‘Zuchongzhi 3.2’ achieves key breakthrough
Zhu Xiaobo (first from left), professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and chief scientist…
“Purifying” photons: Scientists found a way to clean light itself
Researchers at the University of Iowa have identified a new way to “purify” photons, a development that could…
Scientists Just Reversed Time in a Lab, and It Actually Worked
Using a custom-built metamaterial, scientists in New York managed to reverse electromagnetic waves in time, not just direction.…
What happens to a balloon when you let go
Photo by Dennis Hallinan / Getty It slipped from her hand on a small street connecting Gordon Square…
Scientists Guide Zapata’s Path To Fault-Tolerant Quantum Systems
Zapata Quantum’s Scientific Advisory Board comprises leading researchers and technologists focused on advancing the development of scalable, fault-tolerant…
First-Ever Superkilonova May Have Been Spotted in Bizarre Star Explosion : ScienceAlert
A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which…