Ultra-Cold Atoms Recreate the Expanding Universe in Tabletop Experiment
Eerie similarities unite vastly different scientific ideas in sometimes utterly surprising ways. One of these…
Here's How Scientists Bent Diamonds
A team of physicists has figured out how to bend diamonds, according to a new paper. Okay, we’re talking about…
Scientists Make a Molecule by Manipulating Just Two Atoms
You may make fun, but Ivanka Trump’s very dumb science photo op is actually what most people think when they hear…
A Spooky Quantum Experiment Creates What May Be the Most Entangled Controllable Device Yet
If you’ve read anything about quantum computers, you may have encountered the statement, “It’s like computing with zero…
Scientists Create Beautiful Iridescent Material That Could Be Edible
What makes something red, or blue, or green? It’s all in the way light bounces off its surface. Something that…
This Random Number Generator Could Be the Most Random Ever
Randomness rules the very fabric of reality. So it only makes sense that scientists have figured out how to use…
If Tiny Dark Matter Particle Exists, This Experiment Is Now Ready to Find It
Scientists are turning the tuning knob on an experiment that’s essentially a radio receiver inside of a magnet. It’s…
IBM Is Teaming Up With a Bunch of Quantum Computing Startups
Quantum computers are currently best at doing a subset of tasks that regular computers can also do, except in a more…
The Universe Is Not in Danger of Ending From a Higgs Boson Vacuum Bubble
There are few easier ways to get people to read your website than to scare them. That’s how we ended up with the media…
CERN Researchers Think They Saw Rare Particle Decay That Could Lead to New Physics
Physicists in Switzerland are on a subatomic hunt that, they hope, will reveal some entirely new results beyond the…
Microsoft Creates Wild Half-Electron Quasiparticle for Its Future Quantum Computer
Microsoft just announced a quantum-computing advancement today: a measurement that looks like an electron split in half…
This Supposed Dark Matter Evidence Won't Seem to Go Away
This past June, 500 pounds of a specially fabricated crystal buried in an Italian mountain seemed to glow just a little…
Could Higgs Bosons and Primordial Black Holes Explain Dark Matter?
Without an actual discovery, it can be difficult to convince us laypeople that there’s really such a thing as “dark…
New Room-Temperature Maser Uses Weird Diamond to Succeed Where Others Failed
Scientists have used the same technology that brought us time crystals to create a room-temperature maser—a microwave…
Scientists Are Building a Mini-Earth With 8 Tons of Spinning Liquid Sodium
Admit it, you don’t really understand why the Earth has a magnetic field. Sure, movement inside the Earth’s outer core…
What You Need to Know About Stephen Hawking’s Final Physics Paper
Less than two weeks before his death on March 14, beloved cosmologist Stephen Hawking put the final touches on a…
DARPA Is Funding Time Crystal Research
You probably scratched your head last year if you read about time crystals, likely 2017’s most esoteric, widely covered…
Scientists Find Same Wild Physical Effect Happening in Two Vastly Different Materials
The universe is loaded with lots of strange symmetries between seemingly dissimilar systems, thanks to similar…
Physicists React to Stephen Hawking's Passing [Updating]
Stephen Hawking passed away today in his home at age 76. Hawking popularized the deepest questions of the universe and…
Particle Accelerator Reveals Ancient Greek Medical Text Beneath Religious Psalms on Parchment
If you’re a history buff, you might not know much particle physics. But the two fields share more in common than you’d…
