How microwaves let us tune into one another – and the universe
Learn more about how microwaves revolutionised our ways of communicating and helped us understand the origins of the…
Scientists stretched a liquid and it snapped like a solid
In a surprising discovery that could reshape fluid mechanics, researchers at Drexel University have shown that under certain…
LIGO May Have Detected The First Primordial Black Hole, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are particularly special types of black hole, thought to have been formed from dense…
Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
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Scientists Found a Second Critical Point Explaining Why Water Seems to Break All The Rules
Credit: POSTECH University, South Korea. Water is the most mundane liquid on Earth, yet it almost breaks the…
New Research Says the Big Bang May Be Linked to a “Deeper Theory of Gravity,” Challenging Past Ideas
Researchers say a new theory tackling the Big Bang could reshape how physicists think about the earliest moments…
It began as an experiment to create brighter materials until a flexible film started producing its own light and energy
Scientific experiments can reshape the world around us. Over the course of history, several experiments have led to…
Scientists Just Upended a 300-Year-Old Law of Physics
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For almost 30 years, we were told that the universe would expand forever, but now new data from 2025 and 2026 is bringing the Big Crunch theory back to the table, which predicts that everything that exists could end up crushed in a great cosmic implosion
For more than twenty years, schoolbooks and science shows have repeated the same story that the universe is…
Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats
Around 70% of Earth’s surface is covered in water, a uniquely anomalous substance that often behaves differently compared…
Radiofrequency cascade readout of coupled spin qubits
Yoneda, J. et al. Quantum non-demolition readout of an electron spin in silicon. Nat. Commun. 11, 1144 (2020).…
A two-mode thermomechanically squeezed phonon laser
To create a multimode optomechanical system, a silica bead of nominal diameter 100 nm is levitated in high vacuum…