Scientists Solve Spaghetti Mystery That Irked Richard Feynman
Scientists have spent a lot more time breaking dry spaghetti noodles than you might think. For, if you can control…
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Surprising Accelerator Finding Could Change the Way We Think About Neutron Stars
Neutron stars are having a renaissance, as far as space objects go. These ultra-dense collapsed stars are the source of…
Scientists Made a Weird System to Study the Mysteries of Photonic Crystals
When you see light, you’re looking at photons spat out by an excited atom. But what if instead of light, an excited…
The Large Hadron Collider Accelerated 'Atoms' With Electrons for the First Time
You can feasibly put anything inside the world’s largest physics experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in…
New American Particle Collider Gets Thumbs Up From National Academies of Sciences
A proposed billion-dollar American particle collider has received enthusiastic backing from the US National Academies…
Scientists Made the Fastest-Spinning Particles Ever to Test the Limits of Physics
Scientists made nanoparticles that spin around each other a billion times per second, the fastest mechanical rotation…
New Quantum Computer Milestone Would Make Richard Feynman Very Happy
A commercially available “quantum computer” has been on the market since 2011, but it’s controversial. The D-Wave…
We Asked Celeb Physicist Brian Cox About Flat Earth Conspiracies, the Multiverse, and Ghosts
There’s a growing, bewildering movement of folks who reject the most basic learnings of science in favor of conspiracy…
New Higgs Boson Discovery Could Help Solve Cosmic Puzzle
Scientists can’t take pictures of the Higgs boson. But they can find proof of its existence by watching “E=mc2” play…
Weird New Quantum Diamonds Offer Hope for a Quantum Internet
“Diamonds are forever” is a cliche that fails to fully encapsulate the many strange properties of diamonds. But a new…
Einstein's Theory of Gravity Holds Up on Test of a Three-Star System
Scientists understand gravity pretty well when it comes to two objects, but add a third, and you’ve got chaos—a system…
Why Particle Physicists Are Excited About This Mysterious Inconsistency
Scientists haven’t conclusively spotted any new particles since the Higgs boson, and that’s got some people…
How a Dust Plume Turned the Sun Red
On October 16 last year, the Sun turned red over the southern United Kingdom. People across the country documented the…
Physicists Think the Weather Can Trigger Blackouts in an Unexpected Way
Renewable resources are great, but they bring a new element of uncertainty to a power grid. This element can lead to…
How to Stop the Sound of a Dripping Faucet Instantly, According to Science
It’s tempting to think that the “plink” sound produced by a falling water droplet on a liquid surface is caused by the…
Can Thousands of Smartphones Help Detect Cosmic Rays?
Your smartphone has a particle detector on it, and scientists want you to help them uncover how the universe really…
Scientists Propose a New Kind of Matter Inside the Densest Stars
You might have a pretty rigid understanding of the way stuff should look, at the most basic level. It should have a…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting an Upgrade
Today, workers at the world’s largest atom smasher are breaking ground on a performance-enhancing upgrade that will…
Physicists Are Excited About Fresh Evidence for a New 'Sterile' Fundamental Particle
Neutrinos are ghostly, mysterious shape-shifters. New evidence bolsters the existence of an even ghostlier, “sterile”…
Experiment Could Help Scientists Predict Avalanches Through Sound
It turns out that 8,000 tiny plastic disks in a rotating drum could help scientists develop a technique to forecast…
