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…
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…