Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Could Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…
Revealing Galactic History With Cosmic Rays
What if we could peer back in time to understand how our galaxy was built—one exploding star at…
Particle size affects contact electrification – Physics World
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The Most Precarious Day in the Universe
September 1, 1939. W. H. Auden wandered into the Dizzy Club in midtown Manhattan and sat down at…
The Magnetar at the Heart of a Superluminous Supernova
If exploding stars were a fireworks display, then superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) would be the grand finale. They can…
Quantum Dynamics Breakthrough Overturns Claim of ‘Quantum Supremacy’
Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics…
New theory argues quantum physics must abandon irratonal numbers and the continuum
Quantum mechanics works perfectly in experiments, but Oxford physicist Tim Palmer argues it rests on a mathematical fiction:…
The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were found to be decelerating slightly more than gravity could explain, and for thirty years physicists wondered if Newton was wrong before realizing in 2012 that the answer was the probes’ own waste heat gently pushing them backward at a billionth of Earth’s gravity.
Two NASA probes built in the early 1970s spent three decades drifting slightly off course, decelerating by about…
Building a better laser on the Moon – Physics World
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Physicists finally solve the strange mystery of “breathing” lasers
An international team of researchers, including a scientist from Aston University, has developed a new mathematical framework that…
Scientists discover strange “narwhal” waves that trap light beyond known limits
For decades, shrinking photonic devices has been far more difficult than miniaturizing electronic components. The challenge comes down…
Spectral level repulsion and Lifshitz-like states in hyperuniform disordered photonic networks
The samples investigated in this work are based on the design of a purely two-dimensional stealthy hyperuniform disordered…