A mysterious and very distant object, in a universe as it was 'just' two billion years after the Big Bang, hides from even the most advanced instruments. Its features have finally been described by a team from SISSA in a ...
Astronomy
Feb 7, 2023
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What is behind dark energy—and what connects it to the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein? Two physicists from the University of Luxembourg point the way to answering these open questions of physics.
General Physics
Jan 24, 2023
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It turns out that time travel into the past is actually relatively easy. All you need to do is make the universe rotate.
General Physics
Jan 12, 2023
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Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don't expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaurs any time soon.
Astronomy
Jan 4, 2023
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Although dark matter is a central part of the standard cosmological model, it's not without its issues. There continue to be nagging mysteries about the stuff, not the least of which is the fact that scientists have found ...
Astronomy
Dec 30, 2022
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Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of physics.
Quantum Physics
Dec 12, 2022
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Research led by the University of Amsterdam has demonstrated that elusive radiation coming from black holes can be studied by mimicking it in the lab.
General Physics
Nov 11, 2022
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Scientists from around the world have reconstructed the laws of gravity, to help get a more precise picture of the universe and its constitution.
Astronomy
Nov 4, 2022
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A team of researchers from Nanjing University, working with two colleagues from the University of Science and Technology of China, has conducted new tests of the chameleon theory and report a failure to find any evidence ...
The alarm goes off in the morning. You catch your morning train to the office. You take a lunch break. You catch your evening train back. You go for an hour's run. Eat dinner. Go to bed. Repeat. Birthdays are celebrated, ...
General Physics
Aug 18, 2022
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