Scientists heat gold to 14 times its melting point — without turning it into a liquid
Scientists have used ultrafast high-intensity lasers to superheat gold to 14 times its melting point without turning the…
Baby star sets off explosion, gets caught in blast
Artist’s impression of a protoplanetary disk distorted by a shock front created by an expanding bubble. Credit: ALMA…
Universe enters uncertain phase — Mysterious shift in dark energy upends cosmic fate
It is not news that our universe is a raving mass of mysteries, but a reality that even…
Dark Mirror of Our Own Universe Could Explain Quirks in Gravity : ScienceAlert
Since conventional explanations have failed to pony up dark matter, one physicist is looking towards the unconventional. In…
“Our Replication Leaves No Doubt” Physicists Uncover Long-Forgotten Experiment That Could Shatter Energy Limits Forever
IN A NUTSHELL 🌟 Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have successfully revived a forgotten 1938 experiment on…
Modeling Planet Formation With Water Tornadoes
Sometimes the easiest way to understand the physics of a phenomenon is to make a physical model of…
Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin
Merging black holes generate gravitational waves, which astronomers can track. Credit: SXS, CC BY-ND Black holes are massive,…
Scientists capture real-time melting of 2D skyrmion lattices using magnetic fields
Snapshots of the skyrmion lattice during the melting: an ordered skyrmion lattice on the left while the lattice…
Control of collective activity to crystallize an oscillator gas
Toner, J., Tu, Y. & Ramaswamy, S. Hydrodynamics and phases of flocks. Ann. Phys. 318, 170–244 (2005). ADS …
Physicists discover particles that accelerate when crowded
Hundreds of 1mm metal beads are placed between two glass plates of 15 x 15 cm. Credit: Leiden…
Physicists finally unveil what lightning really hides
Lightning, with its spectacular flash, carries more than just legends. Throughout the centuries, it has fascinated and frightened,…
Lightning on Earth is sparked by a powerful chain reaction from outer space, simulations show
The energy needed for thunderstorms could come from an avalanche of electrons seeded by extraterrestrial cosmic rays, a…