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The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.
How does star-formation, occurring in small regions within galaxies, affect the entire host galaxy that contains it? JWST holds the answers.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
In 1987, the closest supernova directly observed in nearly 400 years occurred. Will a pulsar arise from those ashes? JWST offers clues.
The false assumption the Multiverse relies on is that something which exists requires an explanation.
By digging deep, we could harness enough energy to power generations to come. But it involves fracking.
This company uses thousands of mirrors, AI, and machine learning to unlock the power of the sun.
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Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here’s how they prove Einstein’s relativity.
Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.
From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic ones, solving any of these puzzles could unlock our understanding of the Universe.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.
Nike athlete and famed Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin shares how she turned her pain into purpose.
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Yes, “the laws of physics break down” at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.
In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?
The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.
If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
There are two types of missing, or “dark” matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and non-baryonic. Have we finally found the normal stuff?
Nothing lives forever, at least, not in the physical Universe. But relativity allows us to get closer than ever, from one perspective.
Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?
Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
The theory is accurate within at least one part in a quadrillion.
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.