Every time you use GPS, you rely on Albert Einstein’s relativity laws
Every time you use Google Maps to take the right turn while driving, or use GPS to drop…
I’ve fired one of America’s most powerful lasers – here’s what a shot day looks like
If you walk across the open yard in front of the Physics, Math and Astronomy building at the…
Quantum ‘Jamming’ Explores the Truly Fundamental Principles of Nature
For the past few decades, researchers have understood that quantum computers should eventually be able to crack the…
Early Galaxies Were Surrounded by Huge Clouds of Hydrogen, and Astronomers Found a Whole Bunch!
Based on the most widely accepted models of how the Universe began – Big Bang cosmology and the…
Astronomers find compelling new evidence of the first stars formed after the Big Bang
A faint glow of helium, hanging near one of the earliest known galaxies, may be the clearest sign…
5 Questions for Edoardo Baldini – UT Austin News
What is a recent discovery your research has uncovered, and how would you explain it to someone outside…
How black holes wield the firepower of 10,000 suns
Black holes are famous for using their gravity to trap matter and light within their dark hearts. But…
Gravity holds across cosmos, proving Newton and Einstein right
Scientists have tested gravity across some of the largest structures in the universe and found that it behaves…
NIST Weighs In on the Mystery of the Gravitational Constant
NIST scientists Stephan Schlamminger (left) and Vincent Lee examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational…
US tests spin fuel in 180-million-degree Fahrenheit plasma for reactors
Scientists in the US have been testing spin-polarized nuclear fuel inside tokamaks operating at around 100 million degrees…