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

Quantum Physics

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

By using a technique known as error mitigation, IBM scientists believe they've worked around the uncertainty that plagues quantum processors.

IBM Says It’s Made a Big Breakthrough in Quantum Computing

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have long debated the source of ULXs, chalking their brightness up to optical illusions. A new study confirms that they're all that they appear.

NASA Confirms That Cosmic Object Is so Bright That It Defies Laws of Physics

By Frank Landymore

$According to Bloomberg, there's a man out there who's beaten Roulette, no computer required — and all he says it took was a little practice. Easy!$

A Math and Physics Savant Reportedly Figured Out How to Beat Roulette

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Something's not right about the apparent friction between the UFOs and the and air and water they're churning through — or so it seems.

Harvard and Pentagon Scientists Say “Highly Maneuverable” UFOs Appear to Defy Physics

By Frank Landymore

A novel quantum computing technique could be able to reconstitute a small object across space "without any particles crossing," just like a wormhole.

Quantum Physics

Researchers Say They’ve Come Up With a Blueprint for Creating a Wormhole in a Lab

By Noor Al-Sibai

Physicists accomplished the feat using lasers as optical traps, though they had quantum computing in mind more so than a national pastime.

Scientists Play Tiniest Game of Baseball By Throwing and Catching Individual Atoms

By Frank Landymore

An international team of scientists claim to have found a way to speed up, slow down, and even reverse the flow of time for a given quantum system.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Say They Can Reverse Time in a Quantum System

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could be using black holes as quantum computers, Universe Today reports.

Quantum Physics

Aliens May Be Creating Black Holes to Store Quantum Information, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers have come up with a new theory that could allow for objects to go faster than the speed of light.

Traveling Faster Than Light Would Mean Experiencing Multiple Timelines Simultaneously

By Victor Tangermann

Most scientists believe in an immutable set of "laws of physics" — but one outlier among their ranks thinks those "laws" might not exist at all.

Physicist Says the Laws of Physics Don’t Actually Exist

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new paper on a quantum computer simulating a wormhole was picked up by major new outlets, who seemingly jumped to some conclusions in their headlines.

Those Headlines About Scientists Building a Wormhole Are Total Nonsense, People

By Victor Tangermann

A theoretical physicist has not only figured out a way to test out the theory that we live in a simulation — and is crowdfunding the experiment.

A Scientist Is Crowdfunding an Experiment to Check if We Live in a Simulation

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers are puzzled by the strange behavior of a crooked cluster of stars, which appears to be following an alternative theory of gravity.

There’s Something Strange About How These Stars Are Moving, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

By shooting a laser pulse imitating the Fibonacci Sequence into qubits, physicists created a new phase of matter far better at maintaing a quantum state.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Fed the Fibonacci Sequence Into a Quantum Computer and Something Strange Happened

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that the universe is expanding at an entirely different rate than previously thought, a groundbreaking discovery.

Most Precise Measurements of the Universe Suggest That Something Is Very Wrong

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study conducted by scientists from Trinity College Dublin could suggest that quantum processes are involved in the functions of our brains.

Scientists Suggest Our Brains Work Like Quantum Computers

By Frank Landymore

According to former particle physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, the state of the field of particle physics is misguided and wasteful.

Former Particle Physicist Absolutely Annihilates the Field of Particle Physics

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New photos of a far-flung galaxy cluster have left a group of scientists stumped as they ponder whether they've discovered a new form of physics.

Astronomers Shocked By Mysterious Radio Waves That Seem to Defy Physics

By Noor Al-Sibai

Quantum physicists have effectively opened a portal to a new time dimension while creating a new topological phase of quantum matter.

Physicists Create New Phase of Matter With “Extra” Time Dimension

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Michio Kaku says that he often gives his students a particular experiment in which he has them calculate the probability that they wake up on Mars tomorrow.

Quantum Physics

Physicist Says There’s a Small Chance You’ll Wake Up on Mars Tomorrow Due to Quantum Physics

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered another uber-powerful, repeating radio burst from space — and it's getting them one step closer to unlocking a huge mystery.

Astronomers Discover Another Mysterious, Repeating Radio Transmission From Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new piece for Big Think, Hartsfield argues that massive particle accelerators simply aren't worth the colossal amounts of money and effort.

Physicist Begs Colleagues Not to Build Another Large Hadron Collider

By Victor Tangermann

Astrophysics professor Adam Frank suggests civilizations could advance so much they could eventually be able to change the laws of physics.

NASA Sponsored Researcher Suggests It Might Be Possible to Change the Laws of Physics

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers suggest we could use existing quantum computing methods to build massive telescopes the size of entire planets.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Propose Planet-Sized Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

A controversial theory suggesting that quantum effects in the brain could explain consciousness may hold more weight than scientists originally thought.

Quantum Physics

Experiment Suggests That Consciousness May Be Rooted in Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists claim to have solved on of the biggest paradoxes plaguing theoretical physicists for decades, the BBC reports.

Quantum Physics

Hairy Black Holes Key to Solving Paradoxes of Universe

By Victor Tangermann

A major breakthrough in quantum sensing technology is being described as an "Edison moment" that will, scientists hope, have wide-reaching implications.

Scientists Invent “Profound” Quantum Sensor That Can Peer Into the Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Alexey Galda is a theoretical physics professor who likes to test out his research by jumping out of planes while wearing a wingsuit.

Physics Professor Regularly Flings Himself From Airplanes in Batman-Like Glider

By Tony Ho Tran

A recent investigation found damning evidence that famed physicist Erwin Schrödinger was a pedophile — and even groomed and impregnated a 17-year-old girl.

Quantum Physics

Turns Out Schrödinger, the Father of Quantum Physics, Was a Pedophile

By Tony Ho Tran

Here's a brain teaser for you: scientists are suggesting spacetime may be made out of individual "spacetime pixels" instead of being smooth and continuous.

Scientists Say the Universe Itself May Be “Pixelated”

By Victor Tangermann

MIT researchers this week captured images of super-cold atoms moving from being governed by classic, to quantum, physics, forming quantum tornadoes.

Quantum Physics

MIT Scientists Snap Images of “Quantum Tornadoes”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A box full of untraceable cash sat collecting dust in the unused office a New York City physics professor for months — and its contents were shocking.

Physics Dept Gets Random Box Full of $180K in Untraceable $50s and $100s

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers claim to have quantum entangled frozen tardigrades, microscopic animals that are extremely hardy.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Claim to Entangle Entire Animal in Quantum State

By Victor Tangermann

A new scientific study says the universe may actually change its own laws of physics to achieve stability and evolution, called "The Autodidactic Universe."

Scientists Say the Laws of Physics May Be Changing

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Astrophysicist Says Scientists Need to Stop Searching for Alien Civilizations

Astrophysicist Says Scientists Need to Stop Searching for Alien Civilizations

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the University of Chicago say that they've successfully created a "strange" new state of matter in the laboratory called "superionic ice."

Scientists Say They’ve Created a “Strange” New State of Matter

By Jon Christian

What seemed to be an earthquake shook New Hampshire on Sunday, but experts say there's no evidence of a quake and they have no idea what really happened.

Residents Heard an Earth-Shattering Explosion and Experts Have No Idea What It Was

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to create — and get a clear image of — a Wigner crystal, which is a lattice structure made entirely of electrons.

Scientists Create Material Made Entirely Out of Electrons

By Dan Robitzski

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Quantum Physics

Google Claims To Create Time Crystal Inside Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

A quantum physicist suggests that distant stars could serve as nodes of a galactic communication network that works by altering the light they emit.

Scientist Claims That Aliens May Be Communicating via Starlight

By Dan Robitzski

Fox and Friends told its audience that a Russian jet was capable of doubling the speed of light. That, to be clear, is total nonsense.

The Geniuses at Fox News Said That a New Jet Flies at Twice the Speed of Light

By Dan Robitzski

A 11-year-old boy from Belgium just graduated from the University of Antwerp with a bachelor's degree in physics — and with the highest distinction.

11-Year-Old Gets Physics Degree, Says He’ll Use It to Attain Technological Immortality

By Victor Tangermann

A physicist argues that the universe may have been expanding for all of eternity rather than having any sort of "beginning" point in time.

Physicist: The Universe Has Likely Been Expanding “Eternally”

By Dan Robitzski

A professor who specializes in oil drilling and engineering claimed that he disproved Einstein, just to face mockery online.

Professor Mocked for Claiming to Have Disproved Einstein

By Dan Robitzski

Physicist Melvin Vopson argues that digital information contains a fundamental amount of mass and should be considered a new form of matter.

Physicist Claims That Information Is a New Form of Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Avi Loeb warns that an advanced alien race could launch a physics experiment that incinerates the Earth, and we should try to make a pact to stop it.

Astronomer Warns of Physics Experiment That Could Destroy Our Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a cluster of stars trailing behind our galaxy that they think could be trapped in a blob of dark matter.

A Blob of Dark Matter Appears to Be Floating Outside Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent opinion piece for NBC News, MIT graduate and entrepreneur Rizwan Virk argues studying UFOs could potentially redefine "all of science."

MIT Researcher Says UFO Research Could Lead to New Laws of Physics

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suspect that gas giant planets are capturing dark matter particles, and they have an idea for how to look for them.

Dark Matter May Be Hiding Inside Planets, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Michio Kaku believes physicists are on their way to unraveling a theory of everything, and that doing so will make us "grand masters."

Michio Kaku: Figuring Out Secrets of Physics Will Make us “Grand Masters”

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois have found new evidence suggesting that a subatomic particle called a muon is not following the known laws of physics.

Scientists Just Found Evidence for Fifth Force of Nature

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists at the Argonne National Lab are about to use the Mira supercomputer to simulate the universe, perhaps helping them find dark energy and matter.

Microsoft Researchers Claim Entire Universe Is a Machine-Learning Algorithm

By Tony Ho Tran

The University of Chicago and two national labs are launching the first quantum tech startup-focused accelerator in the country.

Quantum Physics

The First-Ever Startup Accelerator for Quantum Tech Just Launched

By Dan Robitzski

A team of German researchers have found that a highly controversial spacecraft thruster prototype called the EmDrive may not produce any thrust at all.

New Tests Cast Doubt On NASA’s Physics-Defying Thruster Design

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists confirmed that a powerful antineutrino crashed into Antarctica in 2016, triggering a subatomic phenomenon that had never been verified before.

Scientists Confirm an Incredibly Powerful Antimatter Particle Crashed Into Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists dropped a spherical telescope into Lake Baikal, where they hope it will spot subatomic neutrinos zipping by as they pass through the Earth.

Scientists Dump Telescope Into the World’s Deepest Lake to Hunt for Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

A controversial 2018 research paper about the discovery of an elusive subatomic particle has been retracted by the reputable journal Nature.

Quantum Physics

Microsoft Retracts Paper Claiming Quantum Computing Breakthrough

By Victor Tangermann