A binary star breaks the 100 TeV barrier, rewrites cosmic particle limits
For years, scientists have searched for the sources of the most energetic particles in our galaxy, cosmic rays…
Oxford Team Achieves First-ever ‘Quadsqueezing’ Quantum Interaction
Insider Brief Researchers at the University of Oxford demonstrated a new method to engineer higher-order quantum interactions in…
Hidden rules found in Einstein’s spacetime that shape cosmic evolution
Spacetime isn’t supposed to be predictable, but scientists may have just found the rules it cannot break. In…
Decades-long physics mystery may have been an illusion all along
A long-suspected crack in particle physics was a calculation problem, not a broken law of nature, according to…
A Nearly Invisible Energy From Dark Matter Could Explain How the First Black Holes Formed So Fast
A new study suggests that decaying dark matter may have helped create the universe’s first supermassive black holes…
New compact laser-plasma accelerator tech could boost fusion reactors
Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Forschungszentrum Jülich have confirmed “for the first time worldwide” that the…
Debugging A Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics
After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance…
What is quantum gravity? Scientists think it could explain the beginning of our universe
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Scientists discovered an Einstein cross hiding stars older than the galaxy itself that shouldn’t exist
Astronomers detected four almost perfect points of light in a cross shape that really should not exist. At…
CERN has detected a particle similar to a proton, but about four times heavier, and so rare that detecting it has been much more complicated than it seems
What if you could take a proton, keep its basic three-part structure, and then swap in heavier building…
This laser turns metal into a star-like plasma in trillionths of a second
When intense laser flashes strike matter, they can knock electrons out of their positions around atomic nuclei. This…
Astronomers finally solve the gamma-Cas X-ray mystery after 50 years
Astronomers have finally identified the source of unusual X-rays coming from the bright star gamma-Cas. The culprit is…