Australia builds deep underground lab to hunt dark matter
Australia is building a physics lab almost half a mile underground to search for dark matter – the…
The Answer To Physics’ Dark Matter Problem Could Lie In The Fifth Dimension
Researchers have been looking at everything, including supernovas, trying to uncover the mysteries of dark matter. Recent scientific studies…
Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here’s why
The nature of time has plagued thinkers for as long as we’ve tried to understand the world we…
Measuring Earth’s Rotation With Two Gyroscopes
We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the…
Scientists Stunned by Gamma-Ray Signals from the Milky Way – Is Dark Matter or Pulsars the Real Culprit?
For over a decade, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has mapped a mysterious excess of gamma-ray light in…
Dream of quantum internet inches closer after breakthrough helps beam information over fiber-optic networks
Scientists have built a new kind of molecular qubit that could help connect quantum computers over existing telecommunications…
What’s Driving Dark Energy? – Universe Today
To be fair, all scientific models are in some sense wrong. They’re all approximations of reality. They’re all…
Progress in quantum structured light
Mair, A., Vaziri, A., Weihs, G. & Zeilinger, A. Entanglement of the orbital angular momentum states of photons.…
Is the Universe Infinite? – Universe Today
The surface of the Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size…
Yes, the Universe Can Expand Faster Than Light
An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward.…
Symmetry method gives clearer view of how quantum noise spreads
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University have reported a major advance in…
95% of the universe is invisible. Here’s why that should fill us with wonder
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