Experiments Ring the ‘Death Knell’ for Sterile Neutrinos
Neutrinos have about as little influence as a particle can have. They have essentially no heft, no electric…
What Star Trek, space-time, and subatomic particles have in common : Short Wave : NPR
What do subatomic particles, black holes, and the Big Bang have in common? They’re all covered in Chanda…
SuperCDM Experiment Reaches Critical Temperature, Bringing it One Step Closer to Detecting Dark Matter
Scientists at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have reached a milestone with the Super…
Unprecedented Observation Reveals 2 Supermassive Black Holes Locked in a Tight Death Spiral
It’s no question that supermassive black holes are cosmic big boys, reaching millions to billions of times the…
Length-scale dependence of the anomalous atomic motion in metallic glasses
Stephenson, G. B., Robert, A. & Grübel, G. Revealing the atomic dance. Nat. Mater. 8, 702 (2009). Article …
Magnetic Levitation Using An Induction Cooktop
Adding another item on the list of things you probably shouldn’t be trying at home, we got [Brainiac75]…
Astronomers Find 33,000 Giant Hydrogen Halos Around Galaxies 11 Billion Years Ago
stronomers have identified tens of thousands of massive hydrogen gas halos surrounding ancient galaxies, some as far back…
Double-edged role of interactions in superconducting twisted bilayer graphene
Cao, Y. et al. Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 80 (2018). Article …
They Discovered Something Faster Than Light, But It Doesn’t Break Physics
It sounds paradoxical at first. Light, after all, is the gold standard of speed in the universe. But…
New Breakthrough in Solar Cell Efficiency Hits 130% Quantum Yield : ScienceAlert
Scientists are always pushing the boundaries of solar cell efficiency – how much of the available sunshine gets…
Metamaterials that learn to change shape
Smart, C. L. et al. Magnetically programmed diffractive robotics. Science 386, 1031 (2024). Article ADS Google Scholar Liu,…
“One of the Most Titanic Blasts in the Cosmos”: Gravitational Waves Support a “Forbidden Range” of Stellar Obliteration
Gravitational waves reveal an explosive “forbidden range” of stellar destruction so powerful that not even a black hole…