Physics (Page 3)

Latest in Physics

Quantum phenomena like proton tunneling can, in unusual cases, cause point mutations in human DNA, according to a new study.

Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics Can Mutate Human DNA, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Cities are literally starting to sink under their own weight — all the while, climate change is causing sea levels to rise.

Cities Are So Heavy That They’re Sinking Into the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A team of physicists are investigating a radical quantum theory of time which posits that there is an asymmetry between time and space.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Are Investigating If Time Warps Near a Nuclear Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists propose a fifth dimension and a Higgs Boson-like particle in order to provide a "natural explanation" for dark matter.

The Universe May Have a Fifth Dimension, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

As scientists put more and more resources into studying wormholes, it may become possible to find and even travel through them.

Astrophysicist Says It’s Likely We Can Travel Through Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations on galaxy development suggest that powerful magnetic fields present in the early universe could have stunted the Milky Way's growth.

Scientists: Magnetic Fields May Have Crushed Our Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

New Technique Uses Entire Milky Way as a Giant Observatory

New Technique Uses Entire Milky Way as a Giant Observatory

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre theory claims that dark matter might be made of tiny primordial black holes, which themselves might contain other universes.

Scientists Claim Black Holes Are Made of Collapsed Universes

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers claim to have achieved sustained, long-distance quantum teleportation for the first time, setting the stage for a quantum internet.

Quantum Physics

Researchers Achieve First “Sustained” Long Distance Quantum Teleportation

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of physicists suggests that treating the Sun like a giant gravitational lens would give us a clear view of distant exoplanets.

Giant Telescope Could Spot Individual Continents on Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers from University of Science and Technology of China have just claimed quantum supremacy using a photon-based quantum computer.

Quantum Physics

China Claims Quantum Supremacy

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have created a sensor that can function for an entire year with a single tiny jumpstart of power by using quantum tunneling.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Create Electronic Gadget Powered by Quantum Tunneling

By Victor Tangermann

Filter out every star, galaxy, and other source of brightness we know about, and half of the light in the universe will still remain.

Astronomers Can’t Explain Where Half the Universe’s Light Is Coming From

By Dan Robitzski

The universe has been steadily heating over billions of years due to the violent process of dragging matter together into new galaxies.

The Universe Is Getting Steadily Hotter, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

New Theory: Dark Matter Was Created by “Boiling” Bubbles of Plasma

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a low-cost system that can be mounted on a standard camera and make infrared light visible to the human eye.

Scientists Found a Way to Make Infrared Light Visible to Humans

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning extremely slowly compared to others.

Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole Seems to Be Chilling Out for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found an unusual, ancient supermassive black hole that threatens our understanding of the history of the universe.

Scientists Found an Ultra-Rare Black Hole From Almost 12 Billion Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are preparing to use an ultra-precise atomic clock to hunt oscillations of dark matter several orders of magnitude smaller than ever before.

Ultra-Precise Atomic Clocks May Be Able to Detect Oscillations of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away without altering it in the process.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself

By Victor Tangermann

The galaxy Dragonfly 44, which scientists said had a baffling 10,000-to-one ratio of dark matter to visible matter, may not be so unique after all.

Scientists: That “99.9% Dark Matter” Galaxy Is Actually Perfectly Normal

By Dan Robitzski

Astar about 215 million light-years from Earth got too close to a black hole, and got devoured in a process that scientists call "spaghettification."

Watch a Black Hole Suck Down an Entire Star Like a Spaghetti Noodle

By Jon Christian

$Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explores the implications of new research about a hypothetical type of black hole that would contain a "fractal universe."$

Researchers: Some Black Holes May Contain a “Fractal Universe”

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists measured the mass of 1,800 galaxy clusters to get the most precise number for how much matter is in the universe yet.

Scientists Calculated How Much Matter Is in the Whole Universe

By Dan Robitzski

According to some bizarre theoretical physics, the human-traversable wormholes from science fiction should be possible to create.

Physicists: Wormholes Large Enough to Travel Through Are Possible

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently put out a weird little cartoon that introduces kids to surprisingly complex topics like special relativity and the scale of the universe.

Video Shows NASA’s Bizarre Guide to Near-Light-Speed Travel

By Dan Robitzski

An upcoming experiment called DUNE hopes to scoop up neutrinos, elusive particles blasted out by supernova explosions, as they sail through Earth.

This Underground Experiment Will Hunt for Supernova Shrapnel

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other

Quantum Physics

Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have figured out a way to keep a quantum computer system "coherent," or operational, 10,000 times longer than before.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Create Quantum System That Stays Operational 10,000 Longer

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just blew the distance record for long-range quantum-encrypted messages after beaming one down from a satellite in orbit.

Quantum Physics

Chinese Scientists Figured Out How to Beam Quantum Messages From Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, physicists observed the Higgs boson decay into a pair of particles called muons, further reinforcing the Standard Model.

CERN Says the Higgs Boson Did Something Unexpected

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists made a version of the game "Go" that's played at the quantum scale with entangled photons rather than black-and-white stones.

Scientists Played a Game of Go at the Quantum Scale

By Dan Robitzski

Studying the rings of photons swirling around the black hole Pōwehi can help scientists understand the history of the universe.

We May Be Able to Extract “Movies” of the Universe From Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers developed a new kind of quantum computer architecture that uses artificial "giant atoms" instead of conventional qubits.

Quantum Physics

Engineers Built “Giant Atoms” That Enhance Quantum Computers

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a working model for a bizarre state of matter called "strange metals," and discovered that they behave similar to black holes.

Cornell Scientists Say “Strange Metals” Are Similar to Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

If there's a fundamental unit of time at the tiniest scales of the universe, it's too small to measure. But scientists found what its upper limit must be.

Physicists Say This Is the Smallest Unit of Time That Could Exist

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at LIGO noticed that minuscule quantum fluctuations actually knocked a large mirror in the observatory out of alignment.

Tiny Quantum Fluctuations Can Actually “Kick” Large Objects

By Dan Robitzski

The Large Hadron Collider Just Discovered a Brand-New Particle

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre celestial object too big to be a neutron star but too small for a black hole could undo the rules astrophysicsts use to understand the universe.

Scientists Are Baffled By a Bizarre Black Hole-Like Object

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists recently tested and validated the 50-year-old theory that dangling objects into a black hole then releasing them would generate power.

You Could Generate Power by Dangling Crap Into a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

CERN wants a bigger, better particle collider. But with no guarantee for breakthrough discoveries, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder says don't bother.

Physicist Pleads: Stop Building Stupid, Expensive Particle Colliders

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have long suggested that the arrangement of galaxies through the universe was steered by something called quantum static. Now they can test it.

Quantum Physics

Strange Theory: Entire Universe Structured by “Quantum Static”

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers were able to watch the entire, weeks-long process of a neutron star absorbing matter and creating a powerful x-ray blast.

Astronomers Watch Neutron Star “Charge Up” Before Huge X-ray Blast

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that a bizarre quasiparticle can reproduce by splitting in two and self-repairing like a biological cell would.

Bizarre Subatomic “Quasiparticle” Reproduces Like a Living Cell

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre star system: a collapsed pulsar and white dwarf binary orbiting a second white dwarf, upheld a major tenet of Einstein's general relativity.

Collapsed Star Proves Another of Einstein’s Theories

By Dan Robitzski

Dario Gil, the director of IBM Research, predicts that quantum computing app stores and code repositories will begin to emerge this decade.

Quantum Physics

IBM Director: Get Ready For Quantum Computing App Stores

By Dan Robitzski

In order to give high-energy researchers better working conditions, one physicist proposes building a particle collider on the Moon.

This Madlad Wants to Build a Particle Collider on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists just linked a record-breaking 15 trillion atoms together through quantum entanglement, and they think the technique could help find dark matter.

Scientists Quantum Entangled a Record-Breaking 15 Trillion Atoms

By Dan Robitzski

New research into the effects of dark energy suggests that our universe is flat rather than bubble-like. The finding may finally settle the Hubble constant.

Scientists Claim the Universe Is Actually Flat

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists managed to directly observe the flow of light as it traveled through a nonoscopic crystal.

New Microscope Is So Powerful It Can Watch Light Move

By Dan Robitzski

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers say they've found a new kind of signal coming from our galaxy's supermassive black hole, which they think are rapidly-rotating flare ups.

Astronomers Detect Signal Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A new animation by JAXA planetary scientist James O'Donoghue shows just how slow the speed of light is on a cosmic scale.

Planetary Scientist’s Video Shows How Slow Light Speed Really Is

By Dan Robitzski

To better understand how black holes form and what gravitational waves they give off, physicists are repeatedly simulating extremely violent supernovae.

Scientists Are Killing Off Virtual Stars to Study Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Tech CEO Stephen Wolfram says he's come up with a theory of everything, but physicists at large aren't convinced by his ideas.

Scientists Aren’t Buying a Tech CEO’s “Theory of Everything”

By Dan Robitzski

John Martinis, a researcher largely credited for Google's success in quantum computers, left the company over philosophical differences with his team.

Quantum Physics

Some Serious Drama Went Down on Google’s Quantum Computing Team

By Dan Robitzski

New research threatens the idea that the universe expands outward in all directions, suggesting instead that the laws of physics change directionally.

The Laws of Physics May Break Down at the Edge of the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

Their research falls short of a definite discovery, but researchers think they've found evidence of one of the main theories on why the universe exists.

Scientists May Be Close to Understanding Why the Universe Exists

By Dan Robitzski

A pairing of orbiting black holes gave off gravitational waves that resonate at a perfect fifth, which makes them the perfect harmony to an Elvis song.

Signal From Deep Space Perfectly Harmonizes With Elvis Song

By Dan Robitzski

After nearly 30 years of research, astronomers found that a star orbiting a black hole does so in a rosette shape, supporting Einstein's general relativity.

A Star Is Circling a Black Hole and Its Orbit Is Absolutely Nuts

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon put out a call for vendors to develop a quantum system that could track spacecraft traveling too far away to use GPS.

Quantum Physics

The Pentagon Wants Quantum Sensors to Track Faraway Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

A research team failed to find a widely-accepted dark matter particle candidate in the Milky Way galaxy, causing a stir among disagreeing astrophysicists.

Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are colliding electrons with their antimatter counterparts, positrons, in order to hunt and study a subatomic particle called the Z' boson.

Physicists Are Crashing Matter into Antimatter to Hunt a New Boson

By Dan Robitzski

The universe might be one big giant bubble.

Physicist: Our Galaxy May Be Located Inside an Enormous Bubble

By Jon Christian