The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down
The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long…
What does oxygen in JWST’s most distant galaxies really mean?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
China’s “artificial sun” just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbreakable
Scientists working with China’s fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have successfully reached a long-theorized “density-free regime”…
Astronomers stunned as our supermassive black hole displays unprecedented behavior
Using the unmatched power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and an extended observation window, astronomers have…
What breaks quantum monogamy? Electron crowding delivers a surprise
Are quantum particles polygamous? New experiments suggest some of them abandon long-standing partnerships when conditions get crowded. Quantum…
Scientists Made a Quantum Leap and Entered a New Kind of Matter, and It Lasted Two Seconds
First proposed in the 1920s by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein, the concept of a BEC predicted…
Even Black Holes May Not Fully Hide Quantum Entanglement
Insider Brief A new theoretical study finds that quantum entanglement may remain distinguishable in principle even after one…
How to explain the universe — for beginners
ILLUSTRATION BY PHIL HACKETT Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who is currently working with the Spanish…
A Massive Underground Sphere Is Trying to Catch the Universe’s Ghosts—and Reveal New Physics
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is on the…
Fusion Ignition Breakthrough: Energy Researchers Report Tokamak Experiments That Exceed Mysterious ‘Plasma Density Limit’
In a potential new milestone for fusion energy research, researchers in China report achieving a state once only…
Earth-like Planets Need a Cosmic-Ray Bath
It’s quite a challenge to make an Earth-like world. You need enough mass to hold an atmosphere and…
New Research Reveals how Gravitational Waves Could be Used to Decode Dark Matter
The discovery of Gravitational Waves (GWs) in 2015 confirmed a prediction made by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity…