Why Are Supermassive Black Holes Growing So Slowly?
As our powerful infrared telescopes allow astronomers to peer further and further back in time, they’ve discovered some…
Physicists just solved a strange fusion mystery that stumped experts
Scientists have struggled for years to explain a curious pattern inside tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines designed to one…
These Pretty Light Cones Actually Represent Einstein’s Theory of Spacetime Relativity
Elliot McGucken These photos of 70-foot-tall light cones shimmering over the Californian desert may look beautiful, but scratch…
The Darkness Inside It : ScienceAlert
For the first time, physicists have observed that ‘holes’ in light can move faster than the light itself.…
‘Project Hail Mary’s’ Relativity Problem Is More Complicated Than You Think
When Ryland Grace reaches Tau Ceti in Project Hail Mary, about four years have passed for his human…
100 Years On, Quantum Physics Remains the Universe’s Greatest Mystery
A century on, the quantum landscape remains dazzlingly productive and stubbornly mysterious. Its equations steer lasers and LEDs,…
New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang
One of the greatest unsolved problems in physics concerns unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity—two equally successful theories…
Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang
A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the…
Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter, Validating a Violent Cosmic Collision Theory
Astronomers have long argued that dark matter is the invisible scaffolding that holds galaxies together. Without its immense…
Full space-time ultrafast self-focusing of spherical Airy wavepackets
Olarte, O. E., Andilla, J., Gualda, E. J. & Loza-Alvarez, P. Light-sheet microscopy: a tutorial. Adv. Opt. Photonics…
Real-space imaging of the band topology of transition metal dichalcogenides
Hoffmann, R. How chemistry and physics meet in the solid state. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 26, 846–878 (1987).…
China has activated a magnet 700,000 times more powerful than the Earth’s magnetic field that operates for over 200 consecutive hours while consuming little energy, and now the world wants to know what Beijing plans to do with this technology in 2026.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a superconducting magnet of 35.6 tesla, more than 700,000 times stronger…