US team’s fusion plasma heat control method to protect tokamak walls
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have identified a new method to tame the destructive energy bursts…
No Sign of Gravitational Waves From Single Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Yet
The universe is a big place, and tracking down some of the more interesting parts of it is…
Scientists Continue to Trace the Origin of the Mysterious “Amaterasu” Cosmic Ray Particle
Cosmic rays, or astroparticles, are a means through which astronomers can explore the Universe. These charged particles, which…
Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists
Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside…
Simulation showing what it would look like to go around Earth at the speed of light is absolutely wild
This simulation showed what it would look like if you went around Earth at the speed of light,…
Stephen Hawking, scientist: “Quiet and silent people are the ones who have the strongest and loudest minds”
Stephen William Hawking was a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Born on January 8, 1942 in Oxford, Hawking…
What is Quantum Teleportation? How scientists made a breakthrough for the first time
In 2024, researchers achieved what was long thought impossible: quantum teleportation over the internet. A quantum state of…
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
Thus the wave function can’t tell us what the quantum system is like before we measure it. By…
What’s Really Behind This Unexplained Particle Decay? Scientists Say It’s Something Big!
A surprising and rare particle decay has left scientists puzzled as kaons, particles made up of quarks, are…
Controversy that has divided quantum physics since 1927 is settled
A single trapped atom has been used to carry out Einstein’s proposed test of the double-slit experiment, a…
Scientists Caught Sperm Ignoring a Major Physical Law : ScienceAlert
Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton’s third law…
‘Loudest’ gravitational wave yet puts Einstein’s theory of gravity to its toughest test yet
Scientists have used the loudest gravitational-wave signal ever recorded to put Albert Einstein’s more than 100-year-old theory of…