Tag Archives: Physics

The study’s lead author, PhD student Yuanming Wang. Photo: Louise Cooper Astronomers have used distant galaxies as ‘scintillating pins’ for the first time to locate and identify a fragment of the Milky …

Hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific yielded new elements.Photo: Keystone / Getty Images ()Getty Images) First conceived in 1952 in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of …

Just something visible in tukana.The image: ESA / Hubble and NASA ()fair use) some 163,000 light-Years from milky way A much smaller, much more ancient galaxy: Tussana II, named after the constellation …

Interacting in a confined space, a swarm of ‘smarticles’ can create effortless choreography.The image: Courtesy Thomas Beruetta In January 2020, a second-floor lab at Northwestern University was filled with a tinkling blur …

For some time, physicists have hunted primitive black holes, alien objects that could have formed in the early universe, giving rise to a whole series of cosmic sheenigans. Using a huge 8.2-meter-wide …

Imagine opening the weekend paper and looking through puzzle pages for Sudoku. You spend your morning working through this logic puzzle, only to be realized by the last few sections that there …

About 800 years ago in 1226 two planets “aligned” visually to the night sky. It was the union of Jupiter and Saturn. In a rare event, they appeared extremely close together at …

Nothing lasts like the beating heart of the atom. But even the crisp tick-talk of a vibrational nucleus is limited by the uncertainties imposed by the laws of quantum mechanics. Several years …

In all known space, between stars and galaxies, there is an extremely misty glow, a remnant of the dawn of the universe. It is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the first light …

Amidst waves of refugees, armed conflicts and confrontations between oil reserves, the world feels that this is not the place. The world may shrink, but some people are still fighting to keep …