Debugging A Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics
After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance…
Hidden rules found in Einstein’s spacetime that shape cosmic evolution
Spacetime isn’t supposed to be predictable, but scientists may have just found the rules it cannot break. In…
This laser turns metal into a star-like plasma in trillionths of a second
When intense laser flashes strike matter, they can knock electrons out of their positions around atomic nuclei. This…
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…