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The podcast grift economy is bringing tabloid-y, sensationalist drama to the world of theoretical physics.

Fringe Movement Claims the Entirety of Modern Physics Is Wrong

By Frank Landymore

Some strange radio signals are broadcasting out of Antarctica's ice, and the researchers who found them don't know why.

Scientists Discover Bizarre Signals Coming From Ice in Antarctica

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new theoretical proposal suggests scrapping nearly everything we think we know about gravity in order to understand the universe.

Physicists Say We Were Completely Wrong About How Gravity Works

Researchers using CERN's Large Hadron Collider found that experiments with lead nuclei caused the element to briefly transmute into gold.

Scientists Accidentally Turned Lead Into Gold

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers at the University of Oxford say they've achieved quantum teleportation using a powerful quantum supercomputer.

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Oxford Scientists Say They’ve Achieved Quantum Teleportation

By Victor Tangermann

New research explores the mechanics behind the "false vacuum" theory, the idea that the universe is in a state of only temporary stability.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Find That the Universe Could “Collapse Like a House of Cards”

By Frank Landymore

Scientists say they've discovered evidence of a "lost world" lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, a surprising finding.

Scan Detects Evidence of “Lost World” Under Pacific Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

We now have a new idea of what photons look like from a model that predicts how these particles of light interact with their environment.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Say They’ve Discovered the Shape of Individual Photons

By Frank Landymore

If there's a fifth force of physics to round out the Standard Model, asteroids may be our best bet of discovering its underlying particle.

Mysterious “Fifth Force” of Physics Could Be Influencing Asteroids Near Earth

By Frank Landymore

Researchers say they've observed photons exhibiting bizarre quantum behavior as the result of what's known as atomic excitation.

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Weird New Quantum Experiment Sounds Suspiciously Like Time Travel

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at CERN just made one of the rarest observations in particle physics to-date, measuring an ultra-rare form of kaon decay.

Something Wild Just Happened at the CERN Particle Accelerator

By Frank Landymore

Researchers found a new way to tell if a portrait of a human was AI-generated by using the same techniques astronomers use to analyze stars.

Something Fascinating Is Wrong With the Eyes in Deepfakes

By Victor Tangermann

Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has scientific bones to pick with Dune's sand-thumping and worm movements.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Does dark matter reside in a deformed mirror universe of our own, where rules are different and atoms failed to form?

Dark Matter May Be a Deformed Mirror Universe, Scientists Say

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists has developed a substance so hard and tough that it can go toe to toe with diamonds, the hardest material on Earth.

Scientists Create Substance Rivaling Diamonds in Hardness

By Sharon Adarlo

More researchers are piling on, burying the potentially revolutionary discovery of a room-temperature superconductor in skepticism.

The Claim of a Room Temperature Superconductor Is Starting to Look Fishy

By Victor Tangermann