Thursday, 05 March 2026

Physicists have created a new and extremely rare kind of uranium

Added: 16.04.2021 16:27 | 178 views | 0 comments

A team of physicists in China has produced the lightest uranium atom ever, which is more than 10 per cent smaller than the most common type of uranium

Source: www.newscientist.com

Quantum computers are revealing an unexpected new theory of reality

Added: 14.04.2021 15:25 | 171 views | 0 comments

A powerful new idea about how the laws of physics work could bring breakthroughs on everything from quantum gravity to consciousness, says researcher Chiara Marletto

Source: www.newscientist.com

Graffiti can now be removed in minutes without damaging underlying art

Added: 13.04.2021 11:00 | 177 views | 0 comments

A cleaning system that uses a hydrogel can remove graffiti from street art within minutes, without any alteration to the artwork underneath

Source: www.newscientist.com

7 mesmerising images that capture underlying properties of the world

Added: 07.04.2021 19:00 | 177 views | 0 comments

In his striking photo series, photographer Greg White has captured the essence of base quantities, irreducible measurements that underlie science

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Strange muon behaviour hints at mysterious new particles and forces

Added: 07.04.2021 17:00 | 171 views | 0 comments

Particles called muons spin slightly faster than our best models of physics predict, which may mean that there are more particles and forces that we haven't yet discovered

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Neutrinos change their identities and we don't know why

Added: 31.03.2021 19:00 | 174 views | 0 comments

The standard model of particle physics explains many things, but the strange behaviour of neutrinos isn't one of them, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Source: www.newscientist.com

Antimatter atoms can be precisely manipulated and cooled with lasers

Added: 31.03.2021 17:00 | 169 views | 0 comments

Antimatter atoms are notoriously tough to control, but they have now been cooled using lasers for the first time, enabling us to search for how they differ from regular matter

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Is there an ancient black hole at the edge of the solar system?

Added: 31.03.2021 13:00 | 175 views | 0 comments

Hints of a hefty source of gravity beyond Pluto sparked the search for a possible “Planet Nine”. Now, some astronomers think it could instead be a black hole from the big bang, offering a rare glimpse into the early universe

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Has the Large Hadron Collider finally challenged the laws of physics?

Added: 24.03.2021 14:16 | 176 views | 0 comments

The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has seen "tantalising hints" of physics beyond our standard understanding of the universe, but will the results stand up?

Source: www.newscientist.com

Garden hoses help explain why mammals can maintain stiff erections

Added: 23.03.2021 9:57 | 175 views | 0 comments

Physicists looking for something to do during lockdown turned to studying garden hoses, and have used their findings to explain how a rare feature of mammalian penises helps them maintain stiff erections

Source: www.newscientist.com

Mathematicians who unravelled computational complexity win Abel prize

Added: 17.03.2021 11:00 | 170 views | 0 comments

László Lovász and Avi Wigderson have jointly been awarded the Abel prize, which is sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for their “foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics”

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Physicists have measured gravity on the smallest scale ever

Added: 10.03.2021 16:00 | 173 views | 0 comments

The smallest-scale measurements of gravity ever made show that a tiny gold ball weighing 90 milligrams can move another gold ball just a few nanometres through gravitational pull

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Quantum weirdness isn’t weird – if we accept objects don’t exist

Added: 10.03.2021 12:00 | 165 views | 0 comments

We can grasp the truth about the quantum world, says physicist Carlo Rovelli – as long as we abandon our most cherished assumption about what’s real and what’s not

Source: www.newscientist.com

Photonic laser thruster could power spacecraft from Earth

Added: 05.03.2021 12:00 | 172 views | 0 comments

The Photonic Laser Thruster can move a 750-gram object along a low-friction rail – a small step to using the technology to push satellites rapidly between planets

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Source: www.newscientist.com

X-raying eggs while they cook reveals how egg white becomes solid

Added: 04.03.2021 15:59 | 177 views | 0 comments

When an egg is heated, its proteins unfold and form bonds with each other – an X-ray analysis has shown this happening on the micrometre scale over the first 160 seconds of cooking

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Source: www.newscientist.com

Did time flow in two directions from the big bang, making two futures?

Added: 03.03.2021 18:00 | 173 views | 0 comments

Why time only flows forwards is one of the great mysteries of physics. A new idea suggests that it actually went in two ways from the big bang – and, even more radically, that time emerges not from entropy, but from the growth of structure

Source: www.newscientist.com

We may have to rewrite our understanding of gravity

Added: 03.03.2021 18:00 | 164 views | 0 comments

There is a mismatch between two ways of measuring galactic mass. Dark matter is one way to solve it, but so is rewriting the laws of gravity, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Source: www.newscientist.com

A warp drive that doesn't break the laws of physics is possible

Added: 03.03.2021 9:00 | 175 views | 0 comments

Previous ideas for warp drives have required types of matter that do not seem to exist, but a new concept could allow them to be made without any imaginary substances

Source: www.newscientist.com

Physicists finally worked out why ice is slippery after 150 years

Added: 16.02.2021 8:00 | 184 views | 0 comments

We may finally have an answer to the question of why ice is slippery after 150 years: a layer of dancing molecules on its surface

Source: www.newscientist.com

Mathematician makes breakthrough on 100-year-old problem about knots

Added: 05.02.2021 23:05 | 182 views | 0 comments

Some tangles that look like knots are actually “the unknot”, which can be untangled into a simple loop, and a new algorithm has sped up the process of finding them

Source: www.newscientist.com

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