Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?
Fifty-eight years after it first appeared, string theory remains the most popular candidate for the “theory of everything,”…
Physicists flag over 50 papers on superheavy elements, leading to 3 retractions – Retraction Watch
A physicist in India has accumulated three retractions and 13 expressions of concern for papers on superheavy elements…
Scientists are rethinking how young galaxies formed their magnetic fields
Magnetic fields that stretch across thousands of light-years should take a very long time to organize. Standard dynamo…
A young man aged just 15 is about to officially become a doctor of quantum physics in Antwerp, and what is most surprising is that he already lives in Munich, where he is preparing a second doctorate focused on medicine and artificial intelligence
At 15, most teenagers are thinking about school tests, hobbies, or what to do on the weekend. Laurent…
6,800 feet below ground, in the search for dark matter, something has gone very, very cold
Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has…
Is the Universe Older Than We Thought? A New Twist in the Hubble Tension Mystery
Is the Universe Older Than We Thought? A New Twist in the Hubble Tension Mystery – Futura-Sciences March…
This floating time crystal breaks Newton’s third law of motion
Time crystals are unusual forms of matter made up of particles that “tick,” meaning they move back and…
Building a Navier-Stokes Solver in Python from Scratch: Simulating Airflow
(CFD) is often seen as a black box of complex commercial software. However, implementing a solver “from scratch”…
Physicists solved a decades-old mystery about static electricity
Rub two identical pieces of glass together and something strange happens. One picks up a positive charge. The…
learn the rules of the game before trying to beat anyone at it
What if one of the internet’s favorite Albert Einstein quotes was never really his? The line “You have…
Friction without contact discovered as magnetic forces break a 300-year-old law
Researchers at the University of Konstanz have identified a completely new type of sliding friction. In this case,…
Welcome to the Block Universe
I walk down the patterned garden pathsIn my stiff, brocaded gown.With my powdered hair and jeweled fan,I too…