Physics
Old Equations Shed New Light on Quasars
There's nothing more out of this world than quasi-stellar objects or more simply - quasars. These are the most powerful and among…
Comet Siding Spring: Close Call for Mars, Wake Up Call for Earth?
It was 20 years ago this past July when images of Jupiter being pummeled by a comet caught the world's…
Time Dilation Confirmed in the Lab
It sounds like science fiction, but the time you experience between two events depends directly on the path you take…
A Fun Way of Understanding E=mc2
Many people fail to realize just how much energy there is locked up in matter. The nucleus of any atom…
There Are No Such Things As Black Holes
That's the conclusion reached by one researcher from the University of North Carolina: black holes can't exist in our Universe --…
How Watching 13 Billion Years Of Cosmic Growth Links To Storytelling
How do you show off 13 billion years of cosmic growth? One way that astronomers can figure that out is…
Parallel Universes and the Many-Worlds Theory
Are you unique? In your perception of the world, the answer is simple: you are different than every other person…
Has the Cosmology Standard Model become a Rube Goldberg Device?
This week at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in the UK, physicists are challenging the evidence for the…
First Precise Measurement of Antihydrogen
The best science — the questions that capture and compel any human being — is enshrouded in mystery. Here’s an…
Physicists Pave the Way to Turn Light into Matter
E = mc². It’s one of the most basic and fundamental equations throughout astrophysics. But it does more than suggest…