The Universe’s Most Pristine Ancient Star Is Surprisingly Close : ScienceAlert
A star right here in the Milky Way galaxy is the purest ancient star astronomers have found to…
Physics Nobel Laureate John Martinis Kicks Off New Cornell Undergraduate Lecture Series
Nobel laureate John Martinis told a packed Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium on Tuesday that the secret to understanding quantum tunneling…
Meet Terence Tao and Kim Young-hoon, the masterminds eclipsing Einstein and Newton’s genius
Think Einstein and Newton still define the summit of genius? Two living outliers are quietly unsettling that peak…
A Physicist Was Testing a Vacuum—and Stumbled Upon the First Viable Blueprint for a Warp Drive
For decades, the idea of the warp drive—an incredibly cool, incredibly hypothetical cheat code for crossing impossible distances…
New particle mass measurement deepens quantum mystery
Physicists have measured the mass of one of the universe’s basic building blocks, the W boson particle. The…
Astronomers Just Caught a “Mega-Laser Beam” Signal from 8 Billion Light-Years Away That Refuses to Weaken or Disappear
A razor-thin radio signal struck the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa that refused to follow the usual rules…
Quantum Power Parity
Abstract Quantum technologies are changing the strategic advantage from one system’s operational dominance to mutual denial: the ability…
US lab unlocks atomic-scale magnetism for faster electronics, computing
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory are advancing next-generation electronics by unlocking the behavior of magnetism at the atomic…
What You Would See and Feel While Traveling Near the Speed of Light
We all learn in school, or at least from our more rigorous choices of science fiction, that we’ll…
Gravitational waves may be hidden in the light atoms emit
Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime created by powerful cosmic events such as colliding black holes. Until…
What it is and why it matters
India’s ambitions in next-generation computing received a major thrust with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu set…
Scientists think dark matter might come in two forms
Sometimes, not seeing something can be just as important as detecting it. That idea is at the heart…