‘Project Hail Mary’s’ Relativity Problem Is More Complicated Than You Think
When Ryland Grace reaches Tau Ceti in Project Hail Mary, about four years have passed for his human…
New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang
One of the greatest unsolved problems in physics concerns unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity—two equally successful theories…
Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang
A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the…
Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter, Validating a Violent Cosmic Collision Theory
Astronomers have long argued that dark matter is the invisible scaffolding that holds galaxies together. Without its immense…
Full space-time ultrafast self-focusing of spherical Airy wavepackets
Olarte, O. E., Andilla, J., Gualda, E. J. & Loza-Alvarez, P. Light-sheet microscopy: a tutorial. Adv. Opt. Photonics…
CERN Timepix chips fly to the Moon
Six Timepix chips developed at CERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the…
Fusion power unlikely to become competitive
Governments are committing substantial public funding to nuclear fusion power as a potential source of safe, dispatchable low-carbon…
China has activated a magnet 700,000 times more powerful than the Earth’s magnetic field that operates for over 200 consecutive hours while consuming little energy, and now the world wants to know what Beijing plans to do with this technology in 2026.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a superconducting magnet of 35.6 tesla, more than 700,000 times stronger…
Exploring the astrophysics behind Project Hail Mary – Physics World
Exploring the astrophysics behind Project Hail Mary – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics…
A 200-year-old light trick just transformed quantum encryption
As digital communication accelerates and cyber threats continue to rise, researchers are working to develop more secure ways…
Scientists achieve major breakthrough in pursuit of nearly limitless energy device
A Japanese nuclear fusion startup is one step closer to creating a commercially viable fusion power generation system.…
Scientists were casually experimenting in the lab until a strange state of matter appeared that had been considered impossible for over 50 years
Science and energy generation are intrinsically linked. In recent years, we have made several astonishing scientific discoveries that…