One of Kazakhstan’s top nuclear physicists also leads his nation in retractions – Retraction Watch
The head of a nuclear physics institute in Kazakhstan now has 21 retractions to his name — most…
Hybrid matter that behaves like both liquid and solid discovered
Researchers have unveiled a startling discovery: not all atoms in a liquid are jostling around. Some, it turns…
15-Year-Old Earns PhD in Quantum Physics, Now Plans to Build AI-Enhanced ‘Super-Humans’
A Belgian teenager has become one of the youngest individuals in modern history to complete a PhD in…
Was Isaac Newton Born On Christmas Day? It Depends On Who You Ask
Christmas Day marks the birth of a wise man who revealed eternal truths to humanity and reshaped the…
Study claims the universe will end sooner than we thought
Far in the future, long after stars stop shining, the universe will contain nothing but their leftovers: black…
Direct Images Of Nova Explosions Reveal Their Complexity
White dwarfs are called stellar remnants because they’re what’s left of main sequence stars after they’ve shed most…
An Oxford Physicist Is Shaking Up Our Understanding of Reality
Below, Vlatko Veral shares five key insights from his new book, Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways…
The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Isn’t As Destructive As Thought.
The center of the Milky Way is an extreme environment dominated by the supermassive black hole (SMBH) Sagittarius…
The Primordial Black Hole Saga: Part 2 – Not Your Normal Black Holes
(This is Part 2 of a series on primordial black holes. Check out Part 1 here!) At the…
Hubble Tension: Gravitational Lenses Confirm That Something Is Still Broken In The Universe
Researchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and…
Radio Signals from Antarctica Have Experts Scrambling—They Defy All Known Science
The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment was launched with the goal of detecting radio waves produced by…
Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides Into the Chat.
The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is…