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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Our solar system is moving through space 3x faster than expected
The universe is supposed to look the same no matter where you stand. That idea, known as the…
micro reviews of recent books – Physics World
Breakfast physics, delving into quantum 2.0, the science of sound, an update to everything: micro reviews of recent…
Astronomers Are Stunned: The Universe Could Collapse Earlier Than We Thought
According to the standard cosmological model, the Universe has been in a phase of accelerated expansion for several…