US team’s fusion plasma heat control method to protect tokamak walls
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the destructive energy bursts…
No Sign of Gravitational Waves From Single Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Yet
The universe is a big place, and tracking down some of the more interesting parts of it is…
Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists
Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside…
Our leading theory of dark matter may be wrong, massive gravity study hints
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The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole
For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr…
Simulation showing what it would look like to go around Earth at the speed of light is absolutely wild
This simulation showed what it would look like if you went around Earth at the speed of light,…
Record-breaking gravitational wave puts Einstein’s relativity to its toughest test yet — and proves him right again
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What is Quantum Teleportation? How scientists made a breakthrough for the first time
In 2024, researchers achieved what was long thought impossible: quantum teleportation over the internet. A quantum state of…
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
Thus the wave function can’t tell us what the quantum system is like before we measure it. By…
What’s Really Behind This Unexplained Particle Decay? Scientists Say It’s Something Big!
A surprising and rare particle decay has left scientists puzzled as kaons, particles made up of quarks, are…
On-chip non-Hermitian cavity quantum electrodynamics
Chen, H.-Z. et al. Revealing the missing dimension at an exceptional point. Nat. Phys. 16, 571–578 (2020). Article …
America’s Largest Particle Collider Just Shut Down. Here’s What Happens Next
As foretold, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—among the most powerful heavy-ion colliders in the world, second only to…