Room-temperature superconductors could transform technology – but the latest, much-hyped claims should be approached with caution.
New measurements from Japan’s Subaru telescope have helped researchers study the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem.
Javier Zayas Photography/Moment via Getty
The way particles interacted while the universe was forming seconds after the Big Bang could explain why the universe exists the way it does – a physicist explains matter-antimatter asymmetry.
Cillian Murphy as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in ‘Oppenheimer.’
Universal Pictures
Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
The idea that the Coriolis force influences how water drains frequently appears in popular culture and urban legends.
frantic00 / Shutterstock
This physical effect does explain how some massive natural phenomena like hurricanes behave. But on the scale of water in your sink – not so much.
Researchers can use mirrorlike beam splitters to put phonons, or quantum sound particles, into a state of superposition.
Peter Allen via University of Chicago
The planet Halla looks like it should have been devoured by its host star, a red giant called Baekdu – but a secret in the star’s past may hold the answer to the planet’s present.
You don’t need to watch where you step when it comes to bacteria.
Westend61/Getty Images
You can squash small bugs by stepping on them, but can you crush even tinier microorganisms like viruses and bacteria? It turns out that you’d need to apply a lot of pressure.
Two glass researchers explain how glass is made, the unique properties of glass and how those properties have allowed it to be a useful material to humans for thousands of years.
New research may upend our understanding of the brain, showing that travelling waves of neuronal excitation dominate the activity associated with our thoughts and feelings.
When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time.
Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Getty Images
In a new book, On The Origin of Time, Belgian physicist Thomas Hertog unravels Stephen Hawking’s last theory, which focuses upon one of the biggest questions of all.
The higher your vantage point, the more likely you’ll see more of the rainbow’s circle.
Chen Hui/VCG via Getty Images
For decades physicists have argued over the nature of the elusive dark matter that pervades the Universe. A clever new study uses gravitational lensing to bring new evidence to the debate.
Particle physics has failed to find some of the evidence physicists were hoping for.
D-Visions/Shutterstock
Our two best theories of nature, quantum mechanics and general relativity, are incompatible with each other in many ways – leaving physicists to dig deeper.
Another homer off the bat of Aaron Judge.
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
Scientists analyzed 100,000 baseball games, from the days of Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays to Aaron Judge. Here’s what they learned about the climate’s growing role.