Dwarf Galaxies May Hold the Answers to the Debate on Dark Matter
Dark Matter is one of the tenacious mysteries facing astronomers and cosmologists today. This theoretical mass was proposed…
First Close-Up of a Star Outside Our Galaxy Reveals a Strange Cosmic Phenomenon That’s Baffling Experts
At a distance of 160,000 light-years, an aging red supergiant star in a neighboring galaxy has become the…
“Really bizarre” quantum discovery defies the rules of physics
Lu Li, a physicist who studies advanced materials, knows that people often want to hear how his research…
Scientists discover a way simulate the Universe on a laptop
As astronomers gather more data than ever before, studying the cosmos has become an increasingly complex task. A…
MIT quantum breakthrough edges toward room-temp superconductors
Superconductors work like express trains for electricity. Once electric current enters one, it can travel through without resistance…
A Fundamental ‘Constant’ of the Universe May Not Be Constant At All, Study Finds
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that took a bite out of life,…
The Unique Kitchen Appliance Designed By Albert Einstein That No One Ever Used
Bettmann/Getty Images Whether you know him as the…
Einstein might have been wrong about black holes
Black holes are often described as cosmic gluttons, consuming everything that drifts too close — including light itself.…
Fractional quantization in insulators from Hall to Chern
Klitzing, K. V., Dorda, G. & Pepper, M. New method for high-accuracy determination of the fine-structure constant based…
If you fell into a black hole, would you survive? What new research says about spaghettification |
Picture yourself drifting in space, caught in the pull of a black hole. The idea feels like pure…
Strong coupling of a superconducting flux qubit to single bismuth donors
In this work, we couple spins to a highly non-linear circuit with huge current quantum fluctuations18,19,20. This circuit…
First Radio Signal from 3I/ATLAS: Absorption by Hydroxyl Radicals (OH Molecules) | by Avi Loeb | Nov, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe MeerKAT Radio Telescope in South Africa. (Credit: Wikimedia)…