Good News! Turns Out the Earth Will Never Be Swallowed by the Sun
Some good news and some bad news. The good news is that, contrary to earlier fears, Earth will…
Oak Ridge, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM Demonstrate Quantum Simulations for Fusion Materials
Insider Brief Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM have performed quantum computer-based calculations of…
Nobel Prize-winning creator of blue LEDs is focused on laser-based nuclear fusion power
Shuji Nakamura already transformed the world once. His invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) changed everything about our…
Scientists Develop Framework to Distinguish Quantum Gravity Signatures
Insider Brief Researchers developed a theoretical framework showing that many proposed signatures of quantum gravity can instead be…
Astronomers witness the birth of a magnetar for the first time
Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the birth of a magnetar, an extremely magnetic, rapidly spinning type…
Physicist Roger Penrose has spent decades arguing that consciousness isn’t something the brain produces, but that explaining it will require physics we haven’t yet discovered
Roger Penrose does not think a computer will ever be conscious, and he does not think a brain…
How Sound Waves Can Be Visualized by Placing Candles in Front of a Speaker
Physicist Helen Czerski of BBC Earth demonstrated how sound waves can be visualized by placing tea candles in…
New Quantum Sensor Opens a Window Into the Invisible Universe
A breakthrough quantum sensor has shown it can uncover hidden signals through overwhelming noise, paving the way for…
Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 percent of all matter in the universe, yet after nearly four decades of increasingly sensitive searches — from deep underground detectors to space-based observations — not a single dark matter particle has ever been directly confirmed.
Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 per cent of all the matter in the universe.…
Quantum mechanics once baffled scientists. Now it’s changing the world
For much of the early 20th century, quantum mechanics was one of the most puzzling ideas in science.…
Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider
It’s difficult to overstate just how much the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has helped advance our understanding of…
Scientists may have finally solved the black hole information paradox
For decades, physicists have wrestled with one of the deepest puzzles in modern science: the “black hole information…