CERN upbeat as China halts particle accelerator mega-project
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research whose main offices also straddle the border near Geneva, seeks to…
15-Year-Old Earns PhD in Quantum Physics, Now Plans to Build AI-Enhanced ‘Super-Humans’
A Belgian teenager has become one of the youngest individuals in modern history to complete a PhD in…
Study claims the universe will end sooner than we thought
Far in the future, long after stars stop shining, the universe will contain nothing but their leftovers: black…
FROM THE ARCHIVE: How will the universe end? (with Dr. Katie Mack)
This holiday season, Dean Regas visits a favorite episode of Looking Up, featuring astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack. They…
These celestial objects survive the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole about 4 million…
An Oxford Physicist Is Shaking Up Our Understanding of Reality
Below, Vlatko Veral shares five key insights from his new book, Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways…
The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Isn’t As Destructive As Thought.
The center of the Milky Way is an extreme environment dominated by the supermassive black hole (SMBH) Sagittarius…
The Primordial Black Hole Saga: Part 2 – Not Your Normal Black Holes
(This is Part 2 of a series on primordial black holes. Check out Part 1 here!) At the…
Historic search for ‘huge missing piece’ of the universe turns up negative — but reveals new secrets of particle physics
A record-breaking investigation, using a particle detector a mile underground in South Dakota, may have revealed new insights…
Hubble Tension: Gravitational Lenses Confirm That Something Is Still Broken In The Universe
Researchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and…
Radio Signals from Antarctica Have Experts Scrambling—They Defy All Known Science
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment was launched with the goal of detecting radio waves produced by…
Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides Into the Chat.
The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is…