CERN Physicists Discover Third and Final Member of Doubly Charmed Baryon Family
Physicists with LHCb Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected the elusive Ωcc⁺ baryon, a particle…
How Einstein’s Lost Theory Could Help Us Find Minerals
Albert Einstein postulated in his 1905 theory of special relativity that the speed of light in a vacuum…
Senior thesis spotlight: A scholarly look at black holes and relativity by a student whose other universe is jazz
When Sophia Varughese came to Princeton, she expected to major in economics and minor in music performance so…
Schrödinger’s anthill: Quantum entanglement detected inside a centimeter-sized strange metal
A strange metal can fit in your hand, yet still behave in ways that seem to belong to…
The Map of Physics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Physics Fit Together
From Newton’s mechanical calculations to Einstein’s general and special relativity to the baffling indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, the…
Strong coupling of a microwave photon to an electron on helium
Platzman, P. M. & Dykman, M. I. Quantum computing with electrons floating on liquid helium. Science 284, 1967–1969…
Mysterious cosmic particle may reveal where the universe’s most extreme rays are born
For decades, physicists assumed the universe’s most powerful particles stopped at iron. Anything heavier would shatter crossing the…
Stunning Video of the Southern Lights Dancing Across the Earth Captured by a NASA Astronaut–WATCH
The Southern Lights – credit, Jessica Meir, screengrab via X From the SpaceX Dragon capsule high above the…
LHCb discovers the final missing member of a doubly charmed particle family – Home
The LHCb Collaboration has found a new particle consisting of one strange quark and two charm quarks. With…
Nanoscale strain wave generation by a piezoelectric grating from polar vortices
Sekhar, M. C. et al. A review on piezoelectric materials and their applications. Cryst. Res. Technol. 58, 2200130…
Scientists Say a New Universe Could Form Inside a Dying Star
An expanding mini-universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar. Credit: Daniel…
How Flocking Birds “Defy” One of Physics’ Most Fundamental Laws
Flocks of birds, bacteria and tissue cells: in some collective systems, the individual elements respond to only part…