Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.
On the night of 18 December 2019, a star in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, briefly…
A space telescope orbiting Earth just picked up the same strange signature buried in every kind of cosmic ray it can detect — and it’s a fingerprint physicists have been quietly waiting on since 1912
Cosmic rays were first discovered in 1912 by the Austrian physicist Victor Hess, who conducted a series of…
A New Model Helps Astronomers Study How Merging Black Holes Ring
Gravitational wave astronomy has been a tremendous breakthrough in our understanding of black holes. We can now detect…
The Weirdness of Early Universe SMBHs Gets Even Weirder
Somewhere in the future, there’s a finish line in the marathon to understand supermassive black holes (SMBH). We…
Incredible Discovery Changes Over 80 Years Of Thinking About Aerodynamics And Suggests Dramatic Aero Improvements
For modern car design, aerodynamics are important. Incredibly important, even. Why else would carmakers spend so much time…
The Universe’s Most Powerful Particles May Be Even Stranger Than Scientists Thought
Artist’s impression of an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray reaching Earth. New research suggests that some of the highest-energy cosmic…
Zeptojoule calorimetry | Nature Electronics
Full experimental setup A detailed depiction of the experimental setup is shown in Extended Data Fig. 1. A…
Ultraviolet-C to mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in periodically poled lithium tantalate waveguides
Principle concept and structural design Figure 1 schematically illustrates the proposed waveguide structure for achieving UV to MIR…
Physicists finally agree on the true size of the proton
Physics textbooks gave the proton a radius. Independent labs around the world kept arriving at the same number,…
Spacetime ‘Crystals’ Could Collapse Into Tiny Black Holes, Wild Paper Explains : ScienceAlert
Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar. This is where familiar physics…
Scientists break 30-year superconductivity record at normal pressure
University of Houston researchers have achieved a major superconductivity breakthrough by setting a new temperature record for superconductors…
Tiny droplets of primordial soup appear in oxygen collisions – Physics World
Tiny droplets of primordial soup appear in oxygen collisions – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…