The World’s Longest-Running Experiment Is Still Teaching Us Physics
The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a…
Is the Earliest Supermassive Black Hole Mystery Solved?
One of the most intriguing puzzles in cosmology is the existence of supermassive black holes that seem to…
Transdimensional anomalous Hall effect in rhombohedral thin graphite
Hall, E. On the possibility of transverse currents in ferromagnets. Philos. Mag 12, 157–172 (1881). Article Google Scholar …
DESI Completes Its Epic 3D Map, Hinting that Dark Energy Might Be Changing
On top of Kitt Peak in the Arizona Desert, a robotic surveyor just completed a five year mission…
Digital quantum magnetism on a trapped-ion quantum computer
D’Alessio, L. & Rigol, M. Long-time behavior of isolated periodically driven interacting lattice systems. Phys. Rev. X 4,…
Trapped particle inside an atom may reveal clues about mass
Scientists have detected a tiny particle becoming caught inside the core of an atom. The finding points to…
The Last Dance of a Dying Star
Our Sun is a patient rotator. Over its lifetime it has shed angular momentum steadily, swept away on…
The Universe May Collapse Far Sooner Than Expected, New Study Suggests
A new cosmological study published in arXiv suggests the universe may have a dramatically shorter lifespan than previously…
Evidence for a ‘forbidden range’ of black hole masses emerges in gravitational wave observations – Physics World
Evidence for a ‘forbidden range’ of black hole masses emerges in gravitational wave observations – Physics World Skip…
What is quantum gravity? Scientists think it could explain the beginning of our universe
Scientists have redefined gravity to explain the Big Bang and perhaps change our picture of the earliest moments…
The Physics World 2026 Particle and Nuclear Briefing is out now – Physics World
The Physics World 2026 Particle and Nuclear Briefing is out now – Physics World Skip to main content…
The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast and Scientists Can’t Explain Why
Artist’s interpretation of the cosmic distance ladder — a succession of overlapping methods used to measure distances across…