Physicists just found a tiny flaw in time itself
Quantum mechanics is famous for its strange and often counterintuitive ideas. At very small scales, particles do not…
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…
Decades-long physics mystery may have been an illusion all along
A long-suspected crack in particle physics was a calculation problem, not a broken law of nature, according to…
A Nearly Invisible Energy From Dark Matter Could Explain How the First Black Holes Formed So Fast
A new study suggests that decaying dark matter may have helped create the universe’s first supermassive black holes…
New compact laser-plasma accelerator tech could boost fusion reactors
Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Forschungszentrum Jülich have confirmed “for the first time worldwide” that the…
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…
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…
What’s faster than light? Darkness
The speed of light in a vacuum has been known as both a universal constant and a hard…
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…
Study reveals that the end of the Universe could happen out of nowhere for a dark reason
An article published in Physical Review Letters presents a laboratory simulation of false vacuum decay, a quantum phenomenon…
Scientists Uncover “Astonishing” Hidden Property of Light
Scientists have discovered that light can naturally develop a hidden “handedness” as it travels through empty space, without…