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Category: Physics
The Infamous ‘Grandfather Paradox’ Doesn’t Make Time Travel Impossible After All
It just means you can’t go back in time and kill your grandfather. Read more at…
Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception
A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel…
Neural networks and ‘ghost’ electrons accurately reconstruct behavior of quantum systems
Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality to crack the code of quantum systems. Read more…
An Interstellar Object May Have Struck Earth. Scientists Plan to Search The Ocean
Back in 2014, an object crashed into the ocean just off the coast of Papua New…
Machine learning reveals hidden components of X-ray pulses
Ultrafast pulses from X-ray lasers reveal how atoms move at timescales of a femtosecond. That’s a…
Incredible New Footage Captures Two Stars Colliding Like We’ve Never Seen Before
The aftermath of an epic collision involving at least one neutron star has been captured for the first…
An AI Just Independently Discovered Alternate Physics
Grab any physics textbook and you’ll find formula after formula describing how things wobble, fly, swerve…
AI tackles the challenge of materials structure prediction
Researchers have designed a machine learning method that can predict the structure of new materials with…
Physics Mystery Solved: Findings Could “Revolutionize” Our Understanding of Distance
A physics puzzle is resolved through a new duality. According to traditional thinking, distorting a flat…
James Webb Space Telescope’s stunning ‘Phantom Galaxy’ picture looks like a wormhole
The telescope is ‘new, different, and exciting’ for Judy Schmidt, who has been working with space…
James Webb telescope is so powerful, it detected water on a distant exoplanet
NASA’s James Webb space telescope is so powerful it can even detect water and other substances…
Black holes may die differently than we thought
New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.…
“Chance of Impact 100%” – Fifth Asteroid Ever Discovered Before Impact
Most asteroids that have impacted Earth were discovered many years, often many millions of years, after…
A Dead Rocket Just Crashed Into the Moon, and Scientists Are Thrilled
The impact likely obliterated the chunk of space junk in a white hot explosion. Read more…
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures…
Webb Telescope reaches major milestone: All its light is in one place
A single dot means we’re nearly halfway through focusing the telescope. Read more at Ars Technica…
Breaking Cosmology: Too Many Disk Galaxies – “A Significant Discrepancy Between Prediction and Reality”
A study by the University of Bonn: Observations fit poorly with the Standard Model of Cosmology.…
For The First Time, a Lone Black Hole Has Been Found Wandering The Milky Way
Like an ancient cardigan, the Milky Way should be absolutely riddled with black holes. Read more…
A strange object in space is blasting out radio waves every 18 minutes
Something extraordinarily bright in space is pulsing far slower than most similar cosmic objects, and it…