Astronomers finally solve the gamma-Cas X-ray mystery after 50 years
Astronomers have finally identified the source of unusual X-rays coming from the bright star gamma-Cas. The culprit is…
Scientists discovered an Einstein cross hiding stars older than the galaxy itself that shouldn’t exist
Astronomers detected four almost perfect points of light in a cross shape that really should not exist. At…
CERN has detected a particle similar to a proton, but about four times heavier, and so rare that detecting it has been much more complicated than it seems
What if you could take a proton, keep its basic three-part structure, and then swap in heavier building…
An Unknown State of Matter Could Be Hiding in Our Solar System : ScienceAlert
Despite outward appearances, the internal workings of ice giants like Uranus and Neptune are extremely chaotic. Pressures millions…
Scientists trace extreme cosmic rays back to a stellar explosion
A new study has found that IC 443, the expanding debris of an exploded star, is accelerating protons…
Field-resolved observation of exciton coherence in a van der Waals magnet
Strogatz, S. H. From Kuramoto to Crawford: exploring the onset of synchronization in populations of coupled oscillators. Phys.…
Resonant chiral dressing by amplitude fluctuations in a ferroaxial electronic crystal
Landau, L. D. et al. On the theory of phase transitions. Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz 7, 19–32 (1937).…
Scientists Exposed Flies to Crushing Hypergravity. The Results Were Unexpected
Pests are, well, pesky because they simply won’t go away. And in a terrifying turn of events, scientists…
Oxford physicists achieve first-ever “quadsqueezing” breakthrough in quantum physics
Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new kind of quantum interaction using a single trapped…
Dying stars can reverse their spin before they explode
A dying massive star can regain spin deep inside itself instead of simply slowing down, according to new…
What’s faster than light? Darkness
The speed of light in a vacuum has been known as both a universal constant and a hard…
Close-In Planets Act as “Bouncers” to Create Rogue Worlds
Rogue planets sound like rare travelers amongst the stars, freed from the gravitational constraints of a host system,…