Welcome to the Lemon-Shaped Planet Where Rain Turns to Diamonds
An illustraion of the lemon world – credit, NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) An exoplanet located 2,000…
These ‘impossible’ galaxies are breaking the Universe as we know it
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on Christmas Day 2021, astronomers hoped it would revolutionise our…
Who was Amelia Frank? The life of a forgotten physicist
In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for his work on…
Fusion Reactors Might Create Dark Matter Particles, Physicists Show : ScienceAlert
Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit. An…
Super simulation shows that something changed in the universe
A new super simulation called FLAMINGO maps the universe from its first moments to today, and it intensifies…
Israeli study reveals how spinning particles self-assemble
A new study by the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University has found that particles…
Scientists bend magnetic fields around real-world objects to create ‘invisibility cloaks’
For nearly 20 years, physicists and engineers have chased the idea of invisibility. Early efforts focused on hiding…
YouTuber captures ‘lightning in a bottle’ using particle accelerator
The phrase “lightning in a bottle” is usually used as a metaphor for something rare or impossible to…
How Does Stardust Spread Through Space? Turns Out, The Push Of Starlight Isn’t Enough
Winds from the red giant R Doradus are not powerful enough to spread the molecules that make up…
China’s superconducting quantum prototype ‘Zuchongzhi 3.2’ achieves key breakthrough
Zhu Xiaobo (first from left), professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and chief scientist…
Scientists Just Reversed Time in a Lab, and It Actually Worked
Using a custom-built metamaterial, scientists in New York managed to reverse electromagnetic waves in time, not just direction.…
The early Universe with JWST and ALMA
Tamura, Y. et al. Detection of the far-infrared [O III] and dust emission in a galaxy at redshift 8.312:…