Quantum ‘curvature’ warps electron flow, hinting at new electronics possibilities
Optical image of two patterned Hall bar devices oriented along orthogonal directions on the SrTiO3 surface. The green…
Dark matter could be turning giant planets into black holes
More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and…
Massive stars in metal-poor environment often have close partners, scientists discover
Massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Of the stars studied, seventy percent (the red diamonds) appear to…
“It’s Its Own New Thing” – Scientists Discover New State of Quantum Matter
UC Irvine physicists have discovered a new phase of quantum matter with unusual electron-hole pairings. The material’s resilience…
CERN Deploys Cutting-Edge AI in “Impossible” Hunt for Higgs Decay
The Higgs boson gives particles mass, but its links to the lighter quarks are still largely untested. CMS…
New theory: could early, supermassive stars explain the Universe?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
How NASA made exoplanets into tourist destinations
“Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Kepler-16b is a gas…
Rare oceanic plate delamination may explain Portugal’s mysterious earthquakes
A delaminating block could reproduce the structure observed in the tomography model. The serpentinized layer decouples the crustal…
Habitable planet potential increases in the outer galaxy
Longstanding model of the galactic habitable zone, which is estimated to exist between 7-9 kiloparsecs from the center…
Radio emission observations reveal delayed outflow from a tidal disruption event
Radio light curves of WTP 14adeqka in selected frequencies from archival and targeted VLA observations (main panel) along…
Quantum entanglement lasts 600 times longer in elusive dark states, study finds
Cavity coupled QDs and detuning. a A schematic of an air-suspended hole-CBG cavity in InAs/GaAs membrane and photon…
Program brings greater understanding to star and galaxy formation
“One of the goals of the Webb telescope is to find the first stars, the first galaxies,” Danilo…