Scientists Created a Subatomic Particle That Defies Our Understanding of Physics
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Physicists Spent Years Hunting the “Ghost” Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator, and They Finally Found It
The Super Proton Synchrotron, known as the SPS, is a ring nearly four miles across that has been…
Albert Einstein Speaking to His Son in 1900: “Life Is Like Riding a Bicycle. To Keep Your Balance, You Must Keep Moving”
In 1930, Albert Einstein sat down and wrote a letter to his son Eduard, who was struggling with…
Scientists opened a sealed envelope after 10 years and gravity still didn’t make sense
For more than two centuries, scientists have tried to determine one of the most important numbers in physics:…
Physicists Observe Strange Quantum Rotation Effect That Defies Intuition
Like on a Ferris wheel, a powerful terahertz laser drives the atoms of a crystal along precise circular…
Stephen Hawking spent the final years of his life convinced humanity had to become a multi-planet species before this century was out — and almost every risk he warned about has accelerated since he died
Stephen Hawking died in March 2018. In the eight years since, the world has done something genuinely strange.…
The “impossible” LED that could change everything
Scientists have developed a surprising new way to power materials that normally cannot conduct electricity, opening the door…
AI reveals the invisible magnetic chaos wasting energy inside electric motors
The explosive growth of electric vehicles has intensified the search for ways to make electric motors more energy…
Quantum ghost imaging works using only sunlight in stunning new experiment
Correlated and entangled photon pairs are essential tools in quantum optics. Scientists usually create these photon pairs through…
There is no sound in space, but NASA records the electromagnetic vibrations of planets and converts them to audio, and Saturn sounds genuinely haunting
Don Gurnett, the principal investigator for the Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, spent…
Did Chinese scientists simulate what could be the ‘end of the universe’?
If a certain tiny bubble suddenly appeared somewhere in the cosmos, physicists say, it could expand and erase…
Scientists May Have Solved Two of Fusion Energy’s Biggest Problems at Once
Researchers have created a new fusion plasma regime that simultaneously reduces extreme divertor heat loads and suppresses damaging…