New method could measure quantum entanglement inside real-world materials
Scientists have always wondered whether ordinary materials are also secretly held together by quantum connections. Until now, there…
Are Neutrinos Their Own Evil Twins? Part 1: So We’re Going to Redefine “Particle”
On March 25, 1938, a 31-year-old physicist named Ettore Majorana bought a ticket for a ferry from Palermo…
The Universe’s Most Pristine Ancient Star Is Surprisingly Close : ScienceAlert
A star right here in the Milky Way galaxy is the purest ancient star astronomers have found to…
Dark Matter Experiment Reaches Critical Milestone Deep Underground : ScienceAlert
Scientists at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have reached a milestone with the Super…
Meet Terence Tao and Kim Young-hoon, the masterminds eclipsing Einstein and Newton’s genius
Think Einstein and Newton still define the summit of genius? Two living outliers are quietly unsettling that peak…
Japanese quantum physicist quits University of Tokyo for HKUST with triple pay, 10x lab budget
Award-winning Japanese quantum physicist Haruki Watanabe has left the University of Tokyo for the Hong Kong University of…
Physics Nobel Laureate John Martinis Kicks Off New Cornell Undergraduate Lecture Series
Nobel laureate John Martinis told a packed Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium on Tuesday that the secret to understanding quantum tunneling…
A Physicist Was Testing a Vacuum—and Stumbled Upon the First Viable Blueprint for a Warp Drive
For decades, the idea of the warp drive—an incredibly cool, incredibly hypothetical cheat code for crossing impossible distances…
New particle mass measurement deepens quantum mystery
Physicists have measured the mass of one of the universe’s basic building blocks, the W boson particle. The…
Astronomers Just Caught a “Mega-Laser Beam” Signal from 8 Billion Light-Years Away That Refuses to Weaken or Disappear
A razor-thin radio signal struck the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa that refused to follow the usual rules…
Milky Way’s “black hole” may not exist: New dark matter theory challenges supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the galactic centre |
Astronomers have proposed a theoretical model suggesting that the object at the centre of the Milky Way, widely…
The Black Hole Merger We Might Live to Witness
Two supermassive black holes are locked in a tight orbit around each other in the galaxy Markarian 501,…