Dark Matter May Be Made of Black Holes From Another Universe
A recent cosmological model combines two of the most eccentric ideas in contemporary physics to explain the nature…
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From Planck’s constant to quantum computing, April 14 is basically physics’ answer to Pi Day World Quantum Day…
Experience the Evolution of Galaxies Like Never Before in Stunning New Simulations
a team of astronomers has unveiled a revolutionary new approach to simulating the evolution of galaxies. Published in…
Scientists Use Rare ‘Einstein Cross’ to Discover Unexpectedly Mature Stars in 8 Billion-Year-Old Galaxy
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have used a rare “Einstein Cross” gravitational lens to investigate a young galaxy…
Pixelated quantum-dot superlattice LEDs | Nature
Rainò, G. et al. Superfluorescence from lead halide perovskite quantum dot superlattices. Nature 563, 671–675 (2018). Article ADS …
This dark energy tool just created the most comprehensive 3D map of our universe ever: ‘A major paradigm shift’
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year mission to build the largest 3D map of…
What Happens When Light Goes Boom? Part 1: The Scientist Who Stared at a Glow
I want you to imagine a scene. It’s the red carpet. It’s the night of the Oscars, or…
Two supermassive black holes are now heading for a Universe-shaking collision
Astronomers have spotted what appears to be two supermassive black holes locked in a death spiral at the…
“Learning Gives Our Metamaterials the Ability to Evolve”: Scientists Invent Intelligent Materials That Learn, Change Shape, and Move on Their Own
University of Amsterdam researchers have unveiled a new type of human-made ‘metamaterials’ that can learn, change shape, and…
Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’ | Science
Michel Mayor’s life could have ended in one of the worst deaths imaginable. In 1968, this Swiss mountaineering…
How physicists found a new type of magnet hiding in plain sight
On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of…
Shattering Einstein’s block universe rescues the flow of time
Einstein’s theory of relativity appears to drain time of its most familiar feature: its flow. If spacetime is…