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Researchers have created a "strange metal" that could help us harness the potential of the quantum world in a practical way.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed With Entangled Electrons

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Department of Energy will build the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a cutting-edge particle collider, at New York's Brookhaven National Laboratory.

DOE: New York Will Be Home to a New Particle Collider

By Kristin Houser

Astrophysicist Ron Mallett believes he's figured out how to build a time machine that would allow someone to travel to the past.

Astrophysicist Says He Knows How to Build a Time Machine

By Kristin Houser

Russia is pouring big money into quantum research in a bid to catch up to other world leaders' quantum computer programs.

Quantum Physics

Russia Desperately Wants a Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

A hundred lights that have appeared and disappeared in the night sky over the past 70 years could be signs of the existence of aliens.

Newly Discovered Blinking Space Lights Could Be Signs of Aliens

By Kristin Houser

A pair of physicists have come up with a solution to the time travel paradox that requires a very large — but not infinite — number of parallel histories.

Paradox-Free Time Travel Possible With Many Parallel Universes

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video uploaded on Wednesday by college student Erica Church shows her physics professor David Wright jovially pull off some amazing tricks in class.

Adorable Physics Prof Finally Gets His Viral Moment of Fame

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon just unveiled its new quantum computer cloud service, Braket, which will give developers a chance to test out their quantum applications.

Quantum Physics

Amazon Is Now Letting Anyone Run Programs on Its Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they've spotted the turbulence allowing black holes to transfer heat to the gas at the core of their galaxy clusters.

Astronomers Catch Three Black Holes “Cooking” Their Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have discovered new evidence of a fifth force of nature, and if confirmed, the work could help us understand dark matter.

Physicists Discover Evidence of a New Force of Nature

By Kristin Houser

A new mission plans to determine once and for all whether spacetime is a smooth fabric or a chunky mess of discrete units.

Satellite Mission Will Investigate Whether Reality Is Pixelated

By Dan Robitzski

In a new paper, an international team of quantum physicists argue that thanks to the unusual rules of quantum mechanics, reality is actually be subjective.

Quantum Physics

Bizarre New Quantum Research: Reality Itself May Be Subjective

By Victor Tangermann

A team of physicists attempted a bizarre new way to spot dark matter: using antimatter probes. It hasn't worked yet, but the scientists have some ideas.

New Research: Antimatter Could Be Portal to “Dark Universe”

By Dan Robitzski

In an interview with NBC, theoretical phycisist Sean Carroll argues that there "are multiple worlds where you made different decisions."

This Physicist Believes There Are Countless Parallel Universes

By Victor Tangermann

A peer-reviewed academic journal has made the bizarre choice to publish a paper that says women are inherently worse at physics despite knowing it's flawed.

Paper in Peer-Reviewed Journal Claims Women Are Bad at Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Yet another study has calculated the Hubble Constant and come to a different conclusion, raising more questions about the nature of our universe.

Scientists: Something About the Universe Doesn’t Look Right

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers claim to have spotted a tiny black hole that's only 20 kilometers across. That's tiny.

Astronomers Spot Black Hole the Size of Manhattan

By Victor Tangermann

While studying hypersonic jet propulsion, a team of engineers stumbled upon the mechanism that could've led to the Big Bang.

Scientists Accidentally Recreate Big Bang Detonation in the Lab

By Kristin Houser

With Google's quantum computer superiority, we can look at 10 million billion states at every one time and solve complex problems much faster than before.

Quantum Physics

Here’s Why Quantum Supremacy Matters

By Victor Tangermann

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy

Quantum Physics

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy

By Victor Tangermann

Space.com delves into the the history of research into the star, and finds that though scientists have made some progress, the mystery remains unexplained.

This Star Appears to Be Older Than the Universe

By Jon Christian

electrons are round

Physics Breakthrough: Quasiparticle Formation Was Observed for the First Time Ever

A rare glimpse of a supermassive black hole obliterating a star in what's called a Tidal Disruption Event could help astrophysicists understand the cosmos.

Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Shred a Star

By Dan Robitzski

Google claims its quantum computer just completed a task in minutes. The same task would've taken a conventional computer 10,000 years.

Quantum Physics

Google Claims to Have Achieved “Quantum Supremacy”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists is preparing to release a world first: video footage of an enormous black hole devouring vast clouds of gas.

Astronomers Say They’ll Soon Release First Video of a Black Hole

By Jon Christian

A team of physicists at Trinity College Dublin have build what they claim is the world's smallest engine. And it's only the size of a single calcium ion.

The World’s Smallest Engine is the Same Size as a Single Ion

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.

Scientists Will Use a Supercomputer to Simulate the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists built a "mini-sun" that's helping them study solar winds and why the Sun occasionally ejects blasts of plasma into space.

Scientists Built a Ball of Plasma They Call a “Mini-Sun”

By Dan Robitzski

Stanford researchers have developed a "quantum microphone" that is so sensitive, it can measure individual particles of sound, otherwise known as "phonons."

Quantum Physics

This “Quantum Microphone” Can Listen to a Single Sound Particle

By Victor Tangermann

Quantum Darwinism, a mind-bending theory that pulls from biology to reconcile quantum mechanics and classical physics, holds up in three sets of tests.

Mind-Bending “Quantum Darwinism” Theory Passes Experimental Tests

By Kristin Houser

Theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues that scientists should be expected to better justify all of the billions of dollars their experiments cost.

Physicist: Maybe We Don’t Need an Expensive New Collider

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have built a quantum gate incorporating qudits as opposed to qubits — and it could help usher in the era of quantum computing.

Quantum Physics

Forget Qubits — Scientists Just Built a Quantum Gate With Qudits

By Kristin Houser

An attempt to reconcile the discrepancy among Hubble Constant calculations only complicated the matter, raising questions about our models of the universe.

New Hubble Data Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists managed to capture photographic evidence that two photons were linked by quantum entanglement.

Scientists Capture First-Ever Image of Quantum Entanglement

By Dan Robitzski

A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.

This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers traced a mysterious, fleeting radio burst from space back to the galaxy from which it originated for the first time.

Astronomers Traced a Mysterious Radio Burst to a Distant Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers used AI to create a universe simulator that's incredibly fast and accurate, even when they tweak parameters not included in its training data.

World’s First AI Universe Simulator Knows Things It Shouldn’t

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a version of an MRI machine that's so scaled down, it can capture detailed images of individual atoms.

Quantum Physics

World’s Smallest MRI Machine Means We Can Now Scan Individual Atoms

By Kristin Houser

Researchers achieved quantum teleportation within a diamond, an achievement that could shape how we share and store sensitive information in the future.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Teleported Quantum Information Inside a Diamond

By Kristin Houser

A new set of equations can make sense of the physics behind turbulence, letting scientists better understand weather and the ways galaxies form.

New Turbulence Models Could Predict Galaxy Formation

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists generated entangled radiation using a mechanical object. They're describing it as the first step toward a quantum internet.

Scientists: Entangled Radiation May Help Build “Quantum Internet”

By Dan Robitzski

A team of French physicists claim to have created metallic hydrogen. Scientists say this experiment is more credible than past, overhyped attempts.

Scientists May Have Created Metallic Hydrogen—For Real this Time

By Dan Robitzski

A physicist came up with models that support the idea that a 2D universe could still feasibly support life, poking holes in the anthropic argument.

New Theory: A 2D Universe Could Host Living Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

New Experiment Will Test EmDrive That Breaks the Laws of Physics

New Experiment Will Test EmDrive That Breaks the Laws of Physics

By Kristin Houser

New models show that scientists could use lasers and powerful magnets to manipulate superconducting materials or build quantum circuits.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Can Enhance Electronics by Shooting Them With Lasers

By Dan Robitzski

Not only are quantum jumps predictable, they can also be reversed, according to a new Yale study that could benefit quantum computing research.

Scientists Predict Quantum Jumps, Turning Physics on Its Head

By Kristin Houser

Researcher from the University of Queensland figured out how to stamp an image of the "Mona Lisa" onto gaseous quantum matter.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Create Quantum-Scale “Mona Lisa,” Just for Funsies

By Kristin Houser

A mounting body of evidence suggests that spacetime is created by the properties of quantum physics, not unlike a hologram projection.

Quantum Physics

Our Reality Could Be a “Hologram” Created by Quantum Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists are using mayonnaise to study the properties of molten metal being used to create fusion reactions in the laboratory setting.

This Physicist Is Using Mayonnaise to Study Nuclear Fusion

European scientists recently tested an unfathomably powerful laser. Next year, they expect to use it to develop new cancer treatments and study supernovas.

The World’s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have a new plan to try and spot dark matter by searching for particular particles once the Large Hadron Collider's upgrades are complete.

When the Large Hadron Collider Turns on, It May Trap Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Inspired by "Frozen," scientists built an apparatus that detects subatomic particles when they collide with supercooled water. It may help spot dark matter.

Disney’s “Frozen” Inspired New Attempt to Find Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

A Harvard physicist has proven that wormhole travel is possible, but rather than being a shortcut, it'd be a longer path between two points in space.

Quantum Physics

Harvard Physicist: Wormhole Travel Is Possible, but It’s Not Fast

By Kristin Houser

Instead, according to scientist and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, some are starting to suspect that matter and reality are complex illusions.

Physicists Are Starting to Suspect Physical Reality Is an Illusion

By Jon Christian

Russian physicists, armed with a quantum computer, managed to send a single electron back in time, resetting the computer to its state from a moment earlier

Russian Scientists Used a Quantum Computer to Turn Back Time

By Dan Robitzski

A new quantum physics experiment demonstrates that objective reality may not exist. Two scientists can make irreconcilable measurements of an event.

Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics Experiment Suggests That Reality Isn’t Objective

By Dan Robitzski

New research upends the common assumption that sound waves are weightless. It turns out they carry a trace amount of mass in the form of phonons.

Sound May Be Carried by Tiny Particles With Negative Gravity

By Dan Robitzski

A quantum radio chip allows researchers to tune in to the smallest radio frequencies

Researchers Tune in to Smallest Radio Frequency in Quantum Mechanics

Researchers believe the strange behavior of galaxies could be caused by the combined mass of untold zillions of photons and not dark matter.

New Theory: Mass of Photons Could Explain Effects of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Cosmologists have long sought to reconcile differences among calculations and observations of how fast the universe is growing. A new idea may explain how.

Bizarre New Theory: Something Tampered With the Early Universe

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists say a new map of how structures of dark matter have grown throughout the life of the universe could upend current understanding of physics.

New Map of Dark Matter Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of Physics

By Jon Christian

To prevent high-energy plasma from breaking down fusion experiments, Princeton physicists built a railgun to disperse the plasma's built-up energy.

New Railgun-Like Device Stabilizes Fusion Reactions

By Dan Robitzski

An array of solar panels, which could be improved by nanomaterials, stands in a field.

Self-Assembling Nanomaterials Could Improve Solar Panels