Due to their incredible density, astronomers believe white dwarves might make the perfect dark matter detectors. Scientists have known for almost a century that most [more…]
Harnessing Alfvén waves, scientists take a step closer to clean and abundant energy by learning how to tame runaway electrons in fusion reactors. Harnessing the [more…]
To understand the behavior of tiny, microscopic entities such as elementary particles, atoms, and even molecules, it is necessary to apply the mind-bending principles of [more…]
Glimpses of the ultrafast world of electrons are changing scientists’ vision of the inner workings of atoms and molecules. The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics [more…]
The sweeping beams of cosmic lighthouses called pulsars are much more energetic than previously thought, calling into question the bulbs that power them. A new [more…]
Excerpt from the September 29, 1973 issue of Science News Nearly 200 powerful lasers at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., blast a fuel [more…]
It’s looking less and less likely that the Hubble tension is a result of observational errors. Numerous astronomical observations have shown that the Universe is [more…]
Quantum mechanics, a field of study dating back almost a century, is an essential part of fundamental science, serving to describe the behavior of elementary [more…]
Some days really are longer than others. And now scientists know by precisely how much. Using a laser gyroscope, scientists have measured variations in Earth’s [more…]
First predicted in 1956, scientists have stumbled upon a massless, neutral particle that does not interact with light, colloquially named the “demon particle”. Researchers say [more…]
