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Perhaps the whole Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation, originating from what we could call quantum nothingness.
If light can’t be bent by electric or magnetic fields (and it can’t), then how do the Zeeman and Stark effects split atomic energy levels?
It was a particularly good year for biotech and medical technology. There were also notable advances in energy.
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The brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed, GRB 221009A behaved in unexpected ways that might help us understand how they occur.
Are quantum fields real, or are they simply calculational tools? These 3 experiments show that if energy is real, so are quantum fields.
We are about to learn a lot more about the most elusive of cosmic particles.
If you eat a diet full of refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets, there’s a good chance you have too much insulin.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
Nothing can escape from a black hole. So where do Hawking radiation, relativistic jets, and X-ray emissions around black holes come from?
Although the Big Bang occurred at an instant in time long ago, we still see the light from it. Will the evidence ever disappear completely?
Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.
Lithium-ion batteries pose challenges for our transition toward renewable energy. Sodium-sulfur batteries might be a solution.
From how life emerged on Earth to why we dream, these unanswered questions continue to perplex scientists.
Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What’s the root cause of this Hubble tension?
In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell “up” provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
When supermassive black holes merge, they emit more energy than anything else to occur in our Universe except the Big Bang.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see objects up to 46.1 billion light-years away. No, this doesn’t violate relativity.
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
The future belongs to complexity.
Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli’s rule, our Universe wouldn’t exist.
As we pursue the leadership difference we seek, we attract fuel and generate heat. The trick is to avoid burnout.
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
Today, the Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle physics experiment in history. What would a new, successor collider teach us?