Feb 10SaveSciencePhysics2/10/21SciencePhysics2/10/21Mini Nuclear Reactor at Government Lab Shut Down After Radiation LeakGeorge Dvorsky10SaveA small-scale nuclear reactor at a government neutron research facility was shut down last week after it began to…
Feb 5SaveSciencePhysics2/5/21SciencePhysics2/5/21What Are Venus Flytraps Doing With Magnetic Fields?Isaac Schultz10SaveA team of researchers recently strapped a dismembered carnivorous plant to a sensitive instrument in Berlin, in a…
Feb 3SaveSciencePhysics2/3/21SciencePhysics2/3/21After 69 Years, Chemists Finally Get a Good Look at EinsteiniumIsaac Schultz26SaveFirst conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy…
Feb 2SaveSciencePhysics2/2/21SciencePhysics2/2/21Scientists Explain Why Food Still Sticks to Your Stupid Non-Stick PanGeorge Dvorsky69SaveAn investigation into the way oils behave on hot, flat surfaces has uncovered the process responsible for foods…
Jan 30SaveSciencePhysics1/30/21SciencePhysics1/30/21Physicists Are Reinventing the LaserSophia Chen45SaveIn the 1950s, when physicists were racing to invent the first laser, they found that the rules of quantum mechanics…
Jan 18SaveSciencePhysics1/18/21SciencePhysics1/18/21A Prime Suspect for Dark Matter Might Be Escaping From Neutron StarsIsaac Schultz12SaveAfter axions were first theorized by physicists in the suburbs of Chicago 45 years ago, they quickly became a robust…
Jan 13SaveSciencePhysics1/13/21SciencePhysics1/13/21Astronomers Detected Gravitational Waves. Now They Want to See the Cosmic OceanIsaac Schultz7SaveUsing a signal from dozens of rapidly spinning, dead stars, astrophysicists have gotten closer to realizing their…