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…
The exotic particles that could finally break the Standard Model
An engineer works on equipment for the LHCb experiment inside the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider.Credit: Francis…
Scientists Uncover “Astonishing” Hidden Property of Light
Scientists have discovered that light can naturally develop a hidden “handedness” as it travels through empty space, without…
What’s faster than light? Darkness
The speed of light in a vacuum has been known as both a universal constant and a hard…
Field-resolved observation of exciton coherence in a van der Waals magnet
Strogatz, S. H. From Kuramoto to Crawford: exploring the onset of synchronization in populations of coupled oscillators. Phys.…
An Unknown State of Matter Could Be Hiding in Our Solar System : ScienceAlert
Despite outward appearances, the internal workings of ice giants like Uranus and Neptune are extremely chaotic. Pressures millions…