For the first time, fusion reactions in a reactor were sustained for more than one minute
A new experiment using a tokamak-type reactor—that is, a toroidal chamber with a magnetic coil—has been successful. The…
Transforming deep-space signals into cathedral sound | MIT News
A new immersive sound installation at Oulu Cathedral, Finland, brings the research of MIT astrophysicist and associate professor…
US-made reusable Hadley liquid rocket engine hits Mach 5 in 10 flights
A US aerospace and defense company has taken a huge step towards operational hypersonic systems after recently completing…
Scientists Think Ghost Particles Could Be Storing Their Mass in a Hidden Dimension
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How Do Close Binary Stars Form?
Our Sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars…
Horizontal transport as a source of disequilibrium chemistry on the nightside of a hot exoplanet
Showman, A. P., Tan, X. & Parmentier, V. Atmospheric dynamics of hot giant planets and brown dwarfs. Space…
Programmable skyrmions for communication and sensing
Tsesses, S. et al. Optical skyrmion lattice in evanescent electromagnetic fields. Science 361, 993–996 (2018). Article Google Scholar …
There could be trillions of tonnes of dark matter near the Moon, experts say
Astronomers have gathered overwhelming evidence that 80 per cent of all matter in the Universe is invisible. This…
A New “Quasi-1D” State of Matter Could Be Hiding Inside Ice Giant Planets
Despite outward appearances, the internal workings of ice giants like Uranus and Neptune are extremely chaotic. Pressures millions…
Dark Matter May Have Jump-Started Universe’s First Giant Black Holes
New research by astronomers from the University of California, Riverside, Sam Houston State University and the University of…
Researchers Demonstrate Ultra-low Noise Levels of New Qubit Platform
Insider Brief A new qubit platform developed at Argonne National Laboratory uses electrons trapped on solid neon and…
Dark matter may have formed from ripples in spacetime
Researchers have found that faint gravitational waves in the early Universe could have produced particles that later became…