You are looking for
Advanced search
Physicists Pin Down How Quantum Uncertainty Sharpens Measurements
...Researchers say that the new understanding forges links between disparate areas of quantum physics and that it could prove useful in experiments that use sensitive photon detectors. The paper is...
Top Dark Matter Candidate Loses Ground to Tiniest Competitor
...neutron stars. Together these teams may someday cover most of the possible frequencies. A discovery would permanently rewrite the laws of particle physics and cosmology, but today axions remain entirely...
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes
...can form. Nevertheless, for the past 50 years, extremal black holes have served as useful models in theoretical physics. “They have nice symmetries that make it easier to calculate things,”...
Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
...time, it fulfills his ambition by other means, showing that his intuition about the physics inside black holes was correct, just not for the reason he suspected. Relativity’s Cardinal Sin...
Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise
...more than five times longer than the result in 2018. “This is basically a breakthrough result,” said Brian Reville, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in...
Neutron-Star Collision Shakes Space-Time and Lights Up the Sky
...questions in astrophysics. “In one fell swoop, gravitational wave measurements” have opened “a window onto nuclear astrophysics, neutron star demographics and physics and precise astronomical distances,” said Scott Hughes, an...
The Voyage to the End of Ice
...rest of the planet. To nail down the answer, an expedition to the top of the world has to untangle the knotty physics of ice. “Pull out your ice picks,”...
A World Without Clouds
...the simulated climate “goes over a cliff,” said Kerry Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A leading authority on atmospheric physics, Emanuel called the new findings...
Scientists Unravel How the Tonga Volcano Caused Worldwide Tsunamis
...hours after the volcano’s explosive zenith. “All of the mechanics and physics are quite similar,” said Eric Anderson, a researcher at the Colorado School of Mines who studies interactions between...