The history student who changed physics forever: The PhD thesis Albert Einstein said had ‘lifted a corner of the great veil’
The history student who changed physics forever: The PhD thesis Albert Einstein said had ‘lifted a corner of…
How China’s record-breaking hypergravity centrifuge speeds up Earth physics
How China’s record-breaking hypergravity centrifuge speeds up Earth physics – Futura-Sciences August 16, 2026 3 min A giant…
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
New findings from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are challenging a familiar picture…
US scientists place strongest limit on muon’s hidden electric signal
Can a particle hide a secret in the tiniest of wobbles? A new analysis hints at this possibility.…
Scientists make free-running magnetic waves lock onto external signals
Signals need something to carry them—radio waves carry wireless data, light carries information through optical fibers, and sound…
Iranian researchers open new path to studying particles containing top quarks
Iranian researchers at the University of Tehran have opened a new theoretical path for studying a largely unexplored…
Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first time
Even after a nuclear reactor is switched off, activity continues deep inside its core. Long-lived radioactive fission products…
Scientists Steer Infrared Light Through an “Invisible” Waveguide
Artist’s illustration of plasmon canalization in MoOCl₂, showing light propagating along a narrow channel. The image depicts the…
Ferroelectricity Emerges at the Nanoscale
BYLINE: Rachel Berkowitz Newswise — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have…
Ultra-Thin Titanium Dioxide Becomes Ferroelectric
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered that when titanium dioxide (TiO₂), a material widely…
Physicist Jim Choyke, at 100, still works at Pitt: ‘I like doing physics. Why should I retire?’
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The Sun releases energy by fusing hydrogen in its core, but that energy does not travel outward in a straight line — one estimate puts its diffusion through the radiative zone at around 170,000 years
Here is a picture most of us carry: the Sun burns, light shoots off the top of it,…