Lost Writings of Archimedes Revealed After Centuries by Particle Accelerator
Archimedes Palimpsest. Public Domain Archimedes, one of ancient Greece’s most famous and influential physicists and engineers, left a…
Why being a child prodigy could actually stop the chances of becoming an ‘Einstein’
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Scientists reduce the time for quantum learning tasks from 20 million years to 15 minutes
Learning how a physical system behaves usually means repeating measurements and using statistics to uncover patterns. That approach…
This simulation reveals what really happens near black holes
After decades of steady progress, computational astrophysicists have reached a major turning point in black hole research. A…
‘Monster Stars’ May Finally Have Been Glimpsed at The Dawn of Time : ScienceAlert
One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth…
Star’s Death Plunge Reveals Spacetime Twisting Around a Black Hole : ScienceAlert
A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black…
Physicists discover a universal law for everything that shatters
A single equation may predict how many fragments a brittle object makes when it shatters. In Marseille, France,…
Astrophysicists map the invisible universe using warped galaxies
In today’s leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: about 95 percent of the universe…
Caltech pulls off a trick that scientists thought was impossible
Engineers have taken another big step towards creating a quantum internet by linking two quantum processors so that…
Lichtenberg Lightning In A Bottle, Thanks To The Magic Of Particle Accelerators
You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create…
Bazinga! UC physicist cracks ‘Big Bang Theory’ problem
And that’s where the show’s fictional physicists failed, Zupan said. “The Big Bang Theory” ran from 2007 to…
A Physicist Thinks Consciousness Isn’t Just in Your Brain—He Says It Lives in Higher Dimensions
If your thoughts feel like they come from somewhere deeper—somewhere beyond—there might be a scientific reason for that.…