physics
A new study may change the face of astrophysics.
Superpowers team up to heat up the ionosphere by over 200 degrees.
Two new papers say everything we knew about black holes was wrong.
A theory from cosmology claims the Universe could rip apart to shreds.
Matter from the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.
The definition of a kilogram will now be fixed to Planck’s constant, a fundamental part of quantum physics.
In a breakthrough for nuclear fusion research, scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor have produced temperatures necessary for nuclear fusion on Earth.
To explain the origin of everything, science needs to explain itself.
Giving our solar system a “slap in the face.”
The incredible story of a scientist who survived gulags, fighting to change his country and physics.
It’s exotic, incredibly cold stuff.
A young star and a belt of gasses give the game away.
Future or extraterrestrial civilizations could create megastructures the size of a solar system.
A mind-bending paradox questions the nature of reality.
Are we standing on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction?
Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University might be clearing the way for space travel.
Lederman helped promote the importance of particle physics to the general public and his research laid the groundwork for the Standard Model.
Strickland, whose research helped advance the field of laser science, is the only living female Nobel laureate for physics.
No particle we know of can explain what’s going on.
A classic experiment gets an update that contradicts key assumptions of quantum mechanics.
Our experience of time may be blinding us to its true nature, say scientists.
Through computationally intensive computer simulations, researchers have discovered that “nuclear pasta,” found in the crusts of neutron stars, is the strongest material in the universe.
Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty” science.
Fundamental physics must reconsider its current path and value system.
Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it’s practiced today.
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The quest for the cause of the cosmos is an ancient quest. Neil Turok offers a fascinating new theory.
What if entanglement also occurs across time? Is there such a thing as temporal nonlocality?
A debate over the physics of time in an alleged “block universe.”
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