The proposed EmDrive captured the public’s imagination with the promise of super-fast space travel that broke the laws of physics. Some researchers have detected impulses from the EmDrive that seemed to prove …
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A variety in daily movements is linked to better well-being, according to a small new study of psychiatric patients, a finding that may help explain why pandemic blocks have been difficult for …
Read More »The polarized light image of the black hole’s core, showing magnetic fields.Picture: EHT collaboration In April 2019, the world was bewitched, if only for a moment, by an ominous void surrounded by …
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Update (March 24, 2021): The Large Hadron Collider (LHCb) beauty experiment continues to insist that there is a flaw in our best model of particle physics. As explained below, previous results comparing …
Read More »Illustration: Benjamin Currie / Gizmodo Scientists are celebrating the long-sought discovery of the odderon, a strange phenomenon that appears only rarely when protons collide at high energies, such as inside particle accelerators. …
Read More »The neutrino telescope was dropped into the Russian lake over the weekend.Photo: Alexei Kushnirenko TASS (fake images) On Saturday, a team of Russian researchers threw a new telescope into the icy Lake …
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For decades, we have dreamed of visiting other star systems. There is only one problem: they are so far away that with conventional spaceflight it would take tens of thousands of years …
Read More »It can be understood that gravity originates from a warping of space-time, shown in this artist’s impression.Picture: Arkitek Scientific During the 2019 Christmas season, four physicists hovered over two tiny gold orbs, …
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For the first time, physicists captured an enigmatic state of matter on video. Using a scanning transmission X-ray microscope, the research team has recorded the oscillations of a time crystal made of …
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Launch yourself from a height big enough and it won’t take long to see which one would win in a battle between gravity and the forces that bind the mainland. The relative …
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