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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

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

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

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

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

Cosmic voids in the cosmic web may be connected to dark energy, which causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.

Huge Empty Voids in Universe May Be Generating Dark Energy, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

International scientists disocvered a tertiary, or triple, star system with a third star orbiting a binary of two stars. The stars are massive in size.

Scientists Discover Unique Triple Star System

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists at Hongtuo Joint Laboratory in Wuhan, China, have invented a somewhat mysterious laser pen that lets users write in mid-air.

Chinese Scientists Show Off Laser That Can Write Words in Mid-Air

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Texas toddler ordered 31 McDonald's cheeseburgers on his mom's phone from DoorDash. The kid went viral on Facebook for giving them away for free.

Kid Steals Phone, Orders 31 Cheeseburgers, Leaves Huge Tip

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers say issues with the Hubble Constant could be explained by a "mirror world" invisible to us except through gravitational impact on our cosmos.

Scientists Say There May Be a “Mirror World” to Our Own

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers from the University of Maryland studied graphene and electricity and say there could be two realities interacting.

Physicists Say There May Be Another Reality Right Beyond This One

By Lonnie Lee Hood