NASA is funding research for a conceptual telescope called a “solar gravitational lens” (SGL) that could allow us to observe...
Just as a literature buff might explore a novel for recurring themes, physicists and mathematicians search for repeating structures present...
Atom Soup A team of physicists just managed to entangle a record-breaking 15 trillion atoms. The unusual feat is a...
Splitting Off For the first time, scientists have found that a bizarre subatomic “quasiparticle,” called a skyrmion, that’s capable of reproducing...
A 50-year-old theory that began as speculation about how an alien civilization could use a black hole to generate energy...
No Touching A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab have built a prototype to fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: An...
Physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) have invented a new radar prototype that uses quantum...
A team of scientists says they’ve found a way to quantitatively measure consciousness, a discovery that could have huge implications...
Even after decades of searching, scientists have never seen a particle of dark matter. Evidence for the substance’s existence is...
Quantum Teleportation A team of researchers claim to have achieved quantum teleportation using individual electrons. Quantum teleportation, or quantum entanglement,...
Neutrinos are released during nuclear fusion reactions in the Sun’s core. Detlev Van Ravenswaay/Science Photo Library By catching neutrinos emanating...
Charming Discovery Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider just discovered a brand-new kind of subatomic particle — and its composition...