Physics

New type of exotic ice forms at ambient temperatures

Pranjal Malewar — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 07:03:00 GMT

We usually think of ice as just frozen water. It is simple, solid, and cold. But water is a master of disguise. With just two atoms, hydrogen and oxygen, it can freeze into more than 20 different types of ice. Each type has its own unique internal structure. Some are smooth and familiar, like the kind in your freezer, while others only appear under intense pressure, like in the deep Earth or on distant moons.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Ice, Materials

Physicists turn to nuclear clocks in the hunt for dark matter

Chelsea Haney — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:03:00 GMT

For all our telescopes and colliders, dark matter has remained an elusive ghost for the better part of a century. It outweighs everything we see by a factor of five, yet it slips past every detector built to catch it. Now, a team led by the Weizmann Institute of Science, with collaborators in Germany and Colorado, has turned to a nuclear clock with the hope of revealing the faint fingerprints of this hidden matter.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Clock, Nuclear, Dark Matter

Mysterious radio pulses beneath Antarctica defy rules of particle physics

Jay Kakade — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:03:00 GMT

It may sound like a plot twist out of a science fiction novel, but researchers have detected mysterious radio signals coming from beneath the Antarctic ice that appear to be inconsistent with the standard models of particle physics.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Neutrino, Particle physics, Antarctic, Cosmic, Pennsylvania State University

Newly observed magnetic state could unlock ultrafast memory chips

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 05:03:00 GMT

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated an entirely new form of magnetism in a synthesized crystalline material. They're calling it p-wave magnetism.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Magnetism, Spintronics, Electronic, MIT

Video: World's smallest violin fits inside a single human hair

Bronwyn Thompson — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:51:12 GMT

A platinum fiddle that's just 35 microns in length and 13 microns in width is believed to be the world's smallest violin, measuring just a fraction of a tardigrade or the diameter of an average human hair. But before you get too excited, or ponder the logistics of operating such a tiny instrument, we must unfortunately break the news that it can't be played.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Loughborough University, Nano-tool, Nanomaterials, Computers, Microchip Technologies, Physics, Engineering, Materials

Watch: New structures shrink instead of stretching when pulled

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:27:00 GMT

Researchers in the Netherlands have created mechanical structures that strangely shrink – or more precisely, snap inward – instead of stretching outward when pulled.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Structural Mechanics, Shape-shifting, Bangers

Turning lead into gold (for a split second)

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Mon, 12 May 2025 13:27:00 GMT

Several centuries ago, a branch of alchemy called chrysopoeia is said to have explored the possibilities of transforming widely available base metals into precious metals. Early practitioners never managed to pull it off, but it appears that in studying the conditions that emerged just after the Big Bang using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists have turned lead into gold – for just fractions of a second.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Particle physics, CERN, Large Hadron Collider, ALICE, Metals

Laser cooling breakthrough could make data centers way greener

Abhimanyu Ghoshal — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:03:00 GMT

Lasers are great for heating things up, whether you need to do it quickly, hit a precise target, or do it from a distance. Under specific conditions, lasers can also cool things down, and that might be JUST what we need to tackle way-too-toasty data centers.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Laser, Data Center, Chips, Sandia Labs, University of New Mexico, Cooling, Photonics

Graphite-levitating satellite could finally find dark matter

Michael Irving — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:06:29 GMT

Dark matter is thought to outnumber regular matter by a factor of five to one – so why can’t we find the stuff? A new study proposes looking for it from space, using a satellite containing a levitating piece of graphite and a laser.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Dark Matter, Matter, Particle physics, Graphite, Laser, Levitation, University of Southampton, Satellite, CubeSat

Bizarre particle gains or loses mass depending on direction it travels

Michael Irving — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:39:22 GMT

Scientists have accidentally discovered a particle that has mass when it’s traveling in one direction, but no mass while traveling in a different direction. Known as semi-Dirac fermions, particles with this bizarre behavior were first predicted 16 years ago.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Particle physics, Elementary particles, Quasiparticles, Pennsylvania State University, Materials, Electron Microscopes, Electrons

Ancient black holes could dig tiny tunnels in rocks and buildings

Michael Irving — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:55:53 GMT

To find black holes we usually have to look thousands of light-years away. But a new study suggests we could find evidence of them right here on Earth, as tiny tunnels they’ve carved out in rocks or old buildings.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Dark Matter, Black hole, University at Buffalo, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth

Extremely energetic electrons strike Earth from a strange nearby source

Michael Irving — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:34:00 GMT

Astrophysicists have detected the most energetic electrons ever recorded raining down on Earth. With trillions of times the energy of visible light, these cosmic rays seem to be coming from a powerful source relatively close to our solar system.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Astronomy, Particle physics, Elementary particles, Electron Microscopes, Electrons, Cosmic, Radiation, CNRS, Max Planck Institute

First image of the shape of a single photon revealed in light study

Michael Irving — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:03:00 GMT

The first direct visualization of the shape of a photon has been created. These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but physicists at the University of Birmingham have now calculated their wave function to produce an accurate image of a photon as it’s emitted.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Photon, Photonics, Image, Images, Visualization, University of Birmingham, Light, Particle physics, Elementary particles

Light itself casts a shadow in bizarre laser experiment

Michael Irving — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:00:00 GMT

A new experiment has demonstrated something that sounds physically impossible – light itself casting a shadow. It turns out that if you manipulate a laser just right, then hit it side-on with another light source, it’s possible to create this bizarre optical effect.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Light, Lighting, Laser, Optical, Optics, Brookhaven National Laboratory

First images of electrons forming strange solid crystals

Michael Irving — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 05:46:46 GMT

Under the right circumstances, electrons can actually “freeze” into a bizarre solid form. Now, physicists at Berkeley Lab have created and taken the first ever direct images of this structure.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Electron Microscopes, Electrons, Matter, UC Berkeley, University of California Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Materials

Ray gun accelerates electrons from zero to 500 million mph in two inches

Michael Franco — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:32:39 GMT

On New York's Long Island, scientists are building an ambitious machine to tease apart the mysteries held inside atomic nuclei. A major component of that system is the world's highest voltage electron gun and it's just aced a six-month test.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Particle accelerator, Particle physics, Electron Microscopes

The shocking science behind petting cats – or how static electricity works

Bronwyn Thompson — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 01:03:00 GMT

Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled the mechanisms at play when rubbing a surface creates an electrical current, something that was first recorded in 600 BCE yet not fully understood until now. And while cats are not the main culprits of creating this static electricity, their fur is an ideal conductor.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Northwestern University, Cats, Electricity, Animal science

World's strongest resistive magnet fired up in China

Michael Irving — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:44:20 GMT

Scientists in China have developed the world’s strongest resistive magnet, which produced a steady magnetic field of 42 Tesla (T). The system could improve devices that use magnets, as well as enable a range of new experiments that probe electromagnetism.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Magnetism, Magnetic, Magnetic field, Electromagnetic, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, World Records

Superconductivity breakthrough: 'Edge state' atoms flow friction-free

Michael Irving — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:52:49 GMT

MIT scientists have coaxed atoms into an exotic “edge state” for the first time, allowing them to flow completely friction-free. The breakthrough could lead to better superconductor materials.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Particle physics, Electron Microscopes, Electrons, Atoms, MIT, superconductor

World-first nuclear clock prototype could outperform atomic clocks

Michael Irving — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:17:56 GMT

Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeepers we have, losing only seconds across billions of years. But apparently that’s not accurate enough – nuclear clocks could steal their thunder, speeding up GPS and the internet, among other things. Now, scientists have built and tested the first prototype nuclear clock.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Atoms, Clock, Time, Nucleus, Nuclear, NIST, JILA, TU Wien

Heaviest-ever clumps of antimatter created in atom smasher

Michael Irving — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:47:12 GMT

Physicists have created the heaviest clumps of antimatter particles ever seen. Known as antihyperhydrogen-4, this strange stuff could help us solve some of the most puzzling physics mysteries.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Antimatter, Matter, Particle physics, Elementary particles, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Nucleus, Neutrons

World's fastest microscope freezes time at 1 quintillionth of a second

Michael Irving — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 07:31:13 GMT

The subatomic world is hard to image not just because it’s incredibly tiny, but super fast too. Now physicists at the University of Arizona have developed the world’s fastest electron microscope to capture events lasting just one quintillionth of a second.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Particle physics, Electron Microscopes, Electrons, University of Arizona, Attosecond, World's Fastest

Levitating nanodiamonds spin at 1.2 billion rpm in a vacuum

Michael Irving — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:33:49 GMT

Physicists at Purdue University have levitated nanoscale diamonds, hit them with lasers to make them flash and sent them spinning at an incredible 1.2 billion rpm. The experiments aren’t just about creating the “world’s smallest disco” but could help the study of quantum physics.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Diamonds, Nanodiamonds, Nano, Nanoscale, Purdue University, Quantum, Quantum Physics, Laser

Element 120 discovery possible after titanium beam breakthrough

Michael Irving — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:47:12 GMT

Scientists at Berkeley Lab have used a titanium beam to make atoms of element 116. Not only does this represent a new way to make the super rare element, but it stands as a proof-of-concept that they could soon potentially create the as-yet-undiscovered element 120, which may be stable.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: new element, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Atoms, Titanium

World's most accurate atomic clock off by 1 second every 30 billion years

Michael Irving — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 09:02:00 GMT

Scientists have developed the most precise and accurate atomic clock to date – if you ran it for twice the current age of the universe, it would only be off by one second. This could not only improve services like GPS, but help scientists probe how gravity warps the flow of time across submillimeter distances.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Atoms, Time, Clock, NIST, JILA, Gravity

Plasma fireballs from black holes are now being made here on Earth

Michael Irving — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 08:20:00 GMT

Supermassive black holes have been known to belch gigantic beams of plasma into space – and now scientists have managed to recreate these fireballs in a lab at CERN.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Black hole, Supermassive black hole, Astrophysics, Plasma, Particle accelerator, Particle physics, Elementary particles, Electrons, University of Rochester, CERN

Spacetime defects uncouple gravity from mass in dark matter alternative

Michael Irving — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:30:00 GMT

Something seems to be missing from the universe, and the favored model of physics calls it “dark matter” – but despite a century of searching, it remains a no-show. A new paper proposes an alternative hypothesis, showing how gravity could exist without mass and produce many of the same effects we ascribe to dark matter.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Astronomy, Dark Matter, Gravity, Gravitational lensing, University of Alabama, Matter, Galaxy

Satellites spot strange sky glow that only comes out after midnight

Michael Irving — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:30:00 GMT

If you’re planning to get out and see the aurora next time the Sun fires a blast our way, you might want to keep an eye out for a brand new type of sky glow that’s just been discovered. This short-lived phenomenon only appears after midnight and seems to be the inverse of something just spotted a few years ago.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: aurora, Earth, Atmosphere, Sun, ESA

World's thinnest lens is just three atoms thick

Michael Irving — Fri, 31 May 2024 09:30:00 GMT

Contact lenses get pretty thin nowadays, but they’ve got nothing on a new lens from scientists at Stanford and the University of Amsterdam. The team has created the world’s thinnest lens, measuring just three atoms thick.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Lens, Contact Lenses, Lenses, Thin, University of Amsterdam, Stanford University

Think you understand evaporation? Think again, says MIT

Michael Franco — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:21:22 GMT

We all know that water evaporates when the temperature climbs, but researchers have just shown that there's another factor at play. The breakthrough could solve long-standing atmospheric mysteries and lead to future technological advances.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: MIT, Laser, Water, Climate, Light

Free software lets you design and test warp drives with real physics

Paul McClure — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:07:05 GMT

Warp drives are among the more plausible of science fiction concepts, at least from a mathematical perspective. Now, Applied Physics, a multidisciplinary group of international scientists and engineers, has launched Warp Factory, open-source software that anyone can use to design a functional warp drive.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Warp drive, Warp bubble, Space Travel, Software

Professor Peter Higgs, renowned for Higgs boson prediction, dies aged 94

Michael Irving — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:13:28 GMT

Professor Peter Higgs has died aged 94. The theoretical physicist was best known for his prediction of a key elementary particle, the Higgs boson, which earned him the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics soon after its discovery.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Higgs boson, Particle physics, Particle accelerator, Elementary particles, Obituaries, University of Edinburgh, CERN, Large Hadron Collider

Quantum tornado mimics black holes' warped spacetime in the lab

Michael Franco — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:16:40 GMT

As anyone who's ever seen a science fiction movie knows, whipping up a black hole in a laboratory doesn't seem like such a good idea.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Space exploration, Black hole, Quantum Physics, Helium, University of Nottingham, King's College London, Newcastle University, Superfluid

Bizarre time crystal oscillates for an unprecedented 40 minutes

Michael Irving — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:18:55 GMT

Time crystals are a strange state of matter with properties that sound impossible, but they have been created. Now, German scientists have made one that lasts 10 million times longer than in previous experiments.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Time, Materials, Atoms, Matter

Fundamental physics rule violated as same-charge particles attract

Michael Irving — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:06:30 GMT

It’s a fundamental principle of physics that particles with opposite charges attract each other, while those with the same charge repel. But now, scientists at the University of Oxford have found that under certain circumstances, particles can attract those of the same charge.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Chemistry, Particle physics, Electric, Oxford University, University of Oxford

General Atomics is working on a "small, commercial particle accelerator"

Michael Franco — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 12:30:07 GMT

Using off-the-shelf industrial parts, a team of researchers from the public and private sectors has created a prototype of a small particle accelerator that could have a big impact bringing the technology forward for commercial applications.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, Particle accelerator, Particle physics, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Electron Microscopes

Gravitational pull of half a sand grain measured in physics breakthrough

Michael Irving — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:40:28 GMT

The weak gravitational pull on a particle just half the mass of a grain of sand has been measured for the first time. This most precise measurement of its kind is a breakthrough towards the quantum realm and a potential Theory of Everything.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Gravity, Quantum Gravity, Quantum, Quantum Physics, Quantum Mechanics, University of Southampton

Heat caught moving like sound waves in a superfluid for first time

Michael Irving — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 06:54:24 GMT

Scientists at MIT have directly captured signs of “second sound” in a superfluid for the first time. This bizarre phenomenon occurs when heat moves like sound waves through an unusual state of matter.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Heating, Particle physics, Superfluid, Matter, Sound, Wave, MIT

Some stars could swallow black holes – here's how we can find them

Michael Irving — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 08:16:06 GMT

Black holes are famous for gobbling up anything that gets too close – but could they ever be swallowed whole? A new study suggests that it’s possible that stars could capture very small black holes and keep them in their cores. There might even be a way to find these stars, and if so, they could help us understand the elusive dark matter.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Black hole, Stars, Dark Matter, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Max Planck Institute

Tantalum cold spray boosts potential of fusion reactor chambers

Michael Franco — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:01:20 GMT

The insides of nuclear fusion reactors are violent and chaotic places. A new cold-spray coating can take the heat and also trap some rogue hydrogen particles at the same time, potentially making for smaller, better plasma chambers.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Nuclear Fusion, fusion engineering, Nuclear, Reactors, University of Wisconsin

Ancient stars may have forged superheavy elements unknown to science

Michael Irving — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 03:54:27 GMT

Scientists have uncovered hints of a world of new elements beyond the periodic table. A new study has found that ancient stars may have been producing extremely heavy elements that remain unknown to science.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Stars, Neutron Generators, Neutrons, Nuclear, Nucleus, North Carolina State University, new element

Hunting spacetime fluctuations could unite Einstein and quantum physics

Michael Irving — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:10:45 GMT

A unified Theory Of Everything is the holy grail of physics, but gravity refuses to play ball. Now, a newly proposed theory attempts to unify Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics – and importantly, outlines a way to test it experimentally.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Gravity, Quantum Gravity, Albert Einstein, University College London, relativity, Quantum, Quantum Physics, Quantum Mechanics

How a "supervoid" and modified gravity could solve a cosmic conundrum

Michael Irving — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 06:48:50 GMT

One of the biggest cosmological mysteries centers on a discrepancy in how fast the universe is expanding. A new study comes to an intriguing solution by applying a modified theory of gravity and an unsettling “supervoid” that our galaxy resides in.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Galaxy, Gravity, University of Bonn, University of St. Andrews, Dark Matter, Hubble, Universe

Ultra-compact particle accelerator does a mile's work with four inches

Loz Blain — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:20:49 GMT

The USA has only two accelerators that can produce 10 billion electron-volt particle beams, and they're each about 1.9 miles (3 km) long. "We can now reach those energies in 10 cm (4 inches)," said the CEO of TAU Systems, which has built an ultra-compact accelerator.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Particle accelerator, University of Texas, Laser, Compact

Scientists discover strange new form of magnetism

Michael Irving — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 02:42:22 GMT

Scientists at ETH Zurich have discovered a new type of magnetism. Experiments show that an artificially produced material becomes magnetic through a mechanism that hasn’t been seen before.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Magnetic, Magnetism, Materials, ETH Zurich, Electron Microscopes, Electrons, Kinetic Energy

LIGO squeezes light to surpass quantum limit measuring spacetime ripples

Michael Irving — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 07:44:39 GMT

Gravitational wave facilities measure distortions in the fabric of spacetime down to 10 quadrillionths the width of a hair – small enough to hear interference from particles popping in and out of existence. Now the LIGO facility has pushed beyond this quantum limit by “squeezing” laser light, which will boost gravitational wave detections by about 60%.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Quantum, Quantum Physics, Light, Laser, LIGO, gravitational waves, Caltech

"Pseudogravity" in crystals can bend light like black holes

Michael Irving — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 02:54:34 GMT

Scientists in Japan have managed to manipulate light as though it was being influenced by gravity. By carefully distorting a photonic crystal, the team was able to invoke “pseudogravity” to bend a beam of light, which could have useful applications in optics systems.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Light, Gravity, Gravitational lensing, Albert Einstein, Optics, Optical, Tohoku University

"Modified gravity" could rule out both dark matter and Planet Nine

Michael Irving — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:34:03 GMT

Our solar system officially houses eight planets, but some scientists say there could be a ninth. And that’s not just Pluto aficionados – evidence suggests a huge undiscovered world lurks on the dark fringes out there. Now, a new study has found the outer solar system oddities could be explained by modified theories of gravity, an alternative idea to dark matter.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Astronomy, Dark Matter, Planet 9, Solar System, Astrophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Galaxy, Gravity, Newton, Isaac Newton

2023 Nobel Prize for Physics recognizes work to measure electrons

Paul Ridden — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 12:29:02 GMT

The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for work that's "given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules."

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Nobel prizes, Laser, Electrons, Atoms, Attosecond

Antigravity disproved: Antimatter responds to gravity just like matter

Paul McClure — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:04:29 GMT

Antimatter has intrigued and confounded physicists for almost a century, and the effect of gravity on antimatter has been a point of disagreement. New research may have settled the debate by finding that antihydrogen atoms, the antimatter counterpart of hydrogen, are affected by gravity in the same way as their matter equivalents, ruling out the existence of repulsive 'antigravity.'

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Antimatter, Matter, Gravity, CERN

"Demon particle" accidentally discovered, solving 67-year mystery

Michael Irving — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 05:01:36 GMT

While studying a material that could help unlock the secrets of superconductors, scientists have accidentally discovered a “demon” particle that was first theorized almost 70 years ago, but had never been experimentally confirmed.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Materials, Metals, Quasiparticles, Particle physics, University of Illinois, Electron Microscopes, Electrons

"Quantum superchemistry" observed in lab experiments for first time

Michael Irving — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 04:10:18 GMT

Scientists at the University of Chicago have detected the first evidence of a phenomenon called “quantum superchemistry.” Long predicted but never confirmed, this effect could speed up chemical reactions, give scientists more control over them, and inform quantum computing.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Quantum, Quantum Physics, Quantum Computing, Quantum Mechanics, Atoms, Molecules, Bose-Einstein condensate, University of Chicago, Chemistry

"Quantum gravity" clues could be hiding in the songs of black holes

Michael Irving — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 07:44:45 GMT

Of the four fundamental forces of physics, gravity is the one we’re most familiar with in everyday life, but it’s also the only one that can’t currently be explained by quantum physics. Now scientists have outlined a plan to look for signs of quantum gravity out in the cosmos by listening in to the 'ringing' of colliding black holes.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Black hole, Astrophysics, Quantum, Quantum Gravity, Gravity, relativity, Caltech, LIGO, gravitational waves

World's heaviest "Schrödinger's cat" pushes quantum boundaries

Michael Irving — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 05:19:04 GMT

The famous thought experiment of Schrödinger’s Cat neatly sums up a complex quantum phenomenon, highlighting how bizarre that unseen world is by putting it in terms we can visualize. Now, scientists have created the heaviest Schrödinger’s Cat to date, probing the boundaries between quantum and classical physics.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Quantum, Quantum Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Cats, ETH Zurich

Startling new evidence suggests black holes drive expansion of universe

Michael Irving — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 04:23:14 GMT

A groundbreaking new study could finally provide an answer to one of the most perplexing astrophysics mysteries – without needing to add anything new to our current models. Physicists suggest that black holes could contain a strange form of energy that’s accelerating the expansion of the universe.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Astronomy, Black hole, Supermassive black hole, Dark Energy, Astrophysics, Universe, Cosmology

Detailed new map of all matter in the universe hints at something missing

Michael Irving — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 06:49:39 GMT

Astronomers have put together one of the most comprehensive maps of all the matter in the universe. The huge undertaking hints at a slightly smoother universe than we thought, suggesting that something might be missing from our models.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Matter, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Cosmology, University of Chicago

Physicists discover completely new type of quantum entanglement

Michael Irving — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 04:47:28 GMT

Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have discovered a completely new type of quantum entanglement, the spooky phenomenon that binds particles across any distance. In particle collider experiments, the new entanglement allowed scientists to peer inside atomic nuclei in more detail than ever before.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Quantum, Quantum Physics, Entanglement, Particle physics, Particle accelerator, Elementary particles, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Atomic clocks orbiting near the Sun could detect dark matter

Michael Irving — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 03:05:34 GMT

While many Earth-based experiments have been run to try to detect dark matter, the mysterious substance remains elusive. Now physicists have proposed a new experiment that would try to find signals by sending atomic clocks to where dark matter should be at its most dense – right near the Sun.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Dark Matter, Astrophysics, Solar System, Sun, Spacecraft, Parker Solar Probe, UC Irvine, University of Delaware

Traversable wormhole recreated in a quantum computer for first time

Michael Irving — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 03:29:38 GMT

Wormholes are a staple of sci-fi, and there’s a possibility that they exist in the real universe. But how would they work? Physicists have now used a quantum processor to simulate a traversable wormhole, teleporting information between two quantum systems.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Astrophysics, Albert Einstein, Quantum, Quantum Physics, Quantum Computing, Quantum Mechanics, Teleportation, Caltech, Harvard, Google, Fermilab

Dark matter "meteors" could be streaking through Earth's atmosphere

Michael Irving — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 04:09:36 GMT

Despite making up 85% of the total mass in the universe, dark matter has remained elusive to direct detection. A new study proposes a unique way to look for it using the Earth’s atmosphere as a giant detector for dark matter particles streaming through the air like meteors.

Category: Physics, Science

Tags: Dark Matter, Astrophysics, Meteor, Ohio State University, Radar