Tiny engine runs hotter than the sun to probe the frontiers of thermodynamics
The silica particle interacts with the electric field and the few air particles in the vacuum. Credit: Millen Lab/King’s…
Astronomers detect lowest mass dark object ever measured using gravitational lensing
Overlay of the infrared emission (black and white) with the radio emission (colour). Credit: Keck/EVN/GBT/VLBA Dark matter is…
Easter Island’s Famous Moai Statues Really “Walked” – Physics Confirms It
The monolithic human figures of Rapa Nui, called Moai, are among the most recognizable statues in the world.…
World’s most sensitive table-top experiment sets new limits on very high-frequency gravitational waves
The Gravity Exploration Team was able to achieve record-breaking levels of sensitivity with the Quantum Enhanced Space-Time measurement…
Susumu Kitagawa – Interview – NobelPrize.org
Navigate to: Summary– Facts– Interview– Photo gallery– Other resources- Richard Robson- Omar M. Yaghi Prize announcement Press release…
Scientists uncover a hidden power source inside a monster black hole
A hundred years before the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first image of a black hole in…
Simulations unveil the electrodynamic nature of black hole mergers and other spacetime collisions
Spinning black hole with gravitational electric (top) and magnetic fields (bottom). Shown in color is the gravitational electric…
Temporal characterization of tunable few-cycle vacuum ultraviolet pulses
Krausz, F. & Ivanov, M. Attosecond physics. Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 163–234 (2009). Article ADS Google Scholar Lépine,…
Likely origins of black hole collision with ‘squashed’ orbital path revealed
“Confidently detecting eccentricity is crucial for identifying how the binary black holes that we see with gravitational waves…
Research shines light on ‘double-yielding’ behavior in soft materials
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For decades, scientists have observed, but been unable to explain, a phenomenon seen in…
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology
Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation promises to allow…
In 1927, A Physicist Conducted A Mass Psychic Experiment Involving 25,000 People
In 1927, a respected physicist conducted one of the largest experiments into telepathy the world has ever undertaken,…