Physicists model vacuum tunneling in a 2D superfluid
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to…
Worlds Largest Neutrino Detector Is Collecting Data In China
To say that neutrinos aren’t the easiest particles to study would be a bit of an understatement. Outside…
Humans could finally have found a way to defy Earth’s gravity
Gravity is a key component to human life on Earth – but can this powerful force be defied?…
Dark energy may have caused the universe to expand rather than contract
For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the…
Ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric polarization of NbOI2 captured with femtosecond electron diffraction
Characterization of NbOI2 nanocrystals Figure 1 a shows the crystal lattice of NbOI2. The lattice constants of NbOI2 are…
Why the spiral pass had physicists’ heads spinning for decades : Short Wave : NPR
Monday night football is back! What better way to celebrate than a close look at some of the…
Hidden swirling motion observed for first time
At first glance, a landslide, an avalanche, or even a heap of sand pushed by a bulldozer looks…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…
Watermelon-Shaped Atom Seen Breaking Apart in a Most Unusual Way : ScienceAlert
An international team of researchers has discovered a new configuration of nuclear particles that decays by kicking out…
Turkish physicist who worked at CERN goes missing after detention near Canadian border
Turkish physicist Dr. Furkan Dolek, who worked at CERN and Fermilab, accessed on Aug. 31, 2025. (IHA Photo)…
The Challenge of Measuring the Mass of 3I/ATLAS | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size(Credit: Ciyavula) The biggest uncertainty about the interstellar object…
A Study Appears to Stunningly Contradict Newton and Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update…