It began as an experiment to create brighter materials until a flexible film started producing its own light and energy
Scientific experiments can reshape the world around us. Over the course of history, several experiments have led to…
Scientists stretched a liquid and it snapped like a solid
In a surprising discovery that could reshape fluid mechanics, researchers at Drexel University have shown that under certain…
Scientists Just Upended a 300-Year-Old Law of Physics
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Scientists Found a Second Critical Point Explaining Why Water Seems to Break All The Rules
Credit: POSTECH University, South Korea. Water is the most mundane liquid on Earth, yet it almost breaks the…
New Research Says the Big Bang May Be Linked to a “Deeper Theory of Gravity,” Challenging Past Ideas
Researchers say a new theory tackling the Big Bang could reshape how physicists think about the earliest moments…
Radiofrequency cascade readout of coupled spin qubits
Yoneda, J. et al. Quantum non-demolition readout of an electron spin in silicon. Nat. Commun. 11, 1144 (2020).…
For almost 30 years, we were told that the universe would expand forever, but now new data from 2025 and 2026 is bringing the Big Crunch theory back to the table, which predicts that everything that exists could end up crushed in a great cosmic implosion
For more than twenty years, schoolbooks and science shows have repeated the same story that the universe is…
Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats
Around 70% of Earth’s surface is covered in water, a uniquely anomalous substance that often behaves differently compared…
A two-mode thermomechanically squeezed phonon laser
To create a multimode optomechanical system, a silica bead of nominal diameter 100 nm is levitated in high vacuum…
Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an…