Physics

For nearly three decades, the scientific world has operated under an assumption: the universe is flying apart faster…

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Fusion reactors are designed to produce clean energy, but new theory suggests they could also generate one of…

Scientists have now clarified how deuterons form under extreme conditions. Protons and neutrons needed to create these tiny…

Deep inside some magnetic materials, electrons can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense. Instead of…

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted…

Baibich, M. N. et al. Giant magnetoresistance of (001) Fe/(001) Cr magnetic superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2472–2475…

Black holes are among the strangest objects in the universe. Even though we have learned a great deal…

Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with real-time approximations…

Light already carries our phone calls, videos, and emails across the world through optical fibers, but the same…

Insider Brief Researchers at Lomonosov Moscow State University have developed and tested a 72-qubit atom-based quantum computing prototype…

In a recent study, astronomers reported the discovery of a rare double nucleus in the nearby galaxy NGC…

Dark energy could lead to a ‘Big Crunch’ end for our universe: Study