US tests spin fuel in 180-million-degree Fahrenheit plasma for reactors
Scientists in the US have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel inside tokamaks operating at around 100 million degrees…
NIST Weighs In on the Mystery of the Gravitational Constant
NIST scientists Stephan Schlamminger (left) and Vincent Lee examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational…
Dark Matter May Be Made of Black Holes From Another Universe
A recent cosmological model combines two of the most eccentric ideas in contemporary physics to explain the nature…
This may be the daughter of one of our universe’s 1st stars. Scientists call it an ‘ancient immigrant’
A pristine star found to be devoid of almost any elements heavier than hydrogen and helium might be…
Scientists Use Rare ‘Einstein Cross’ to Discover Unexpectedly Mature Stars in 8 Billion-Year-Old Galaxy
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have used a rare “Einstein Cross” gravitational lens to investigate a young galaxy…
Experience the Evolution of Galaxies Like Never Before in Stunning New Simulations
a team of astronomers has unveiled a revolutionary new approach to simulating the evolution of galaxies. Published in…
Stephen Hawking’s infamous black hole paradox could be solved — if the universe has 7 dimensions
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This dark energy tool just created the most comprehensive 3D map of our universe ever: ‘A major paradigm shift’
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its five-year mission to build the largest 3D map of…
Pixelated quantum-dot superlattice LEDs | Nature
Rainò, G. et al. Superfluorescence from lead halide perovskite quantum dot superlattices. Nature 563, 671–675 (2018). Article ADS …
Stephen Hawking’s black hole information paradox could be solved — if the universe has 7 dimensions
A new theoretical study suggests that black holes may never fully evaporate, which contradicts an infamous Stephen Hawking…
What Happens When Light Goes Boom? Part 1: The Scientist Who Stared at a Glow
I want you to imagine a scene. It’s the red carpet. It’s the night of the Oscars, or…
Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’ | Science
Michel Mayor’s life could have ended in one of the worst deaths imaginable. In 1968, this Swiss mountaineering…