New study suggests the end of the world could come sooner than expected
According to three Dutch researchers, the cosmos could fade away in roughly 10⁷⁸ years — a shockingly short…
Pew! Pew! YouTuber Builds Sound Laser That Works as ‘Invisible Speaker’
Here’s a shower thought: if light and sound both travel as waves, can you make something that works…
String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy
In selecting a geometry for the compact extra dimensions, for instance, they chose a space that resembles a…
Aliens might not have the same physics as us
If we ever meet aliens, would their physics be the same as ours? While this might seem like…
Spiral Galaxy Caught Spraying Huge Jets of Super-Hot Gas Like a Sprinkler : ScienceAlert
A nearby galaxy has been caught draining itself of star-forming fuel, with vast streams of superheated material twisting…
Pushing China’s EAST Tokamak Past The Greenwald Density Limit
Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density,…
An Object With a Black Hole Core Discovered 11 Billion Light-Years Away
A completely dark, invisible object weighing 1 million times the mass of the Sun has been detected through…
The Hidden Lives of the Universe’s Ultramassive Galaxies
The universe’s most massive galaxies present astronomers with a puzzle. Each containing more than 100 billion stars, making…
Supersonic shock tests reveal that metals weaken under extreme speeds
US scientists have debunked a 70-year-old physics law that has long guided how engineers make metals stronger, after…
Ghost Particles Interacting With Dark Matter Could Solve a Huge Cosmic Mystery : ScienceAlert
A new investigation of the early Universe led by Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research has just found…
China Cracks the Code on a Fusion Limit Scientists Failed to Beat for Decades
The breakthrough, reported in the journal Science Advances on January 1, comes from a team at the Chinese…
Negative Energy ‘Ghosts’ Flashing in Space Could Reveal New Physics : ScienceAlert
A ‘boom’ of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium…