Physics
Physicists Don’t Know the Mass of a Neutrino, But Now They Know it’s No Larger Than 1 Electron Volt
The Standard Model of Particle Physics is one of science's most impressive feats. It's a rigorous, precise effort to understand…
French Scientists Claim to Have Created Metallic Hydrogen
A team of French scientists recently claimed to have created metallic hydrogen in a laboratory, a claim which is triggering…
Black Hole Simulation Solves a Mystery About Their Accretion Disks
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists have validated an age-old theory about how accretion disks behave.
Antimatter Behaves Exactly the Same as Regular Matter in Double Slit Experiments
An experiment recently conducted by the QUPLAS collaboration confirmed the dual, particle-wave nature of antimatter.
Barfing Neutron Stars Reveal Their Inner Guts
We don't really understand neutron stars. Oh, we know that they are - they're the leftover remnants of some of…
Using Black Holes to Conquer Space: The Halo Drive!
According to a new study, black holes could be used as a gravitational slingshot, allowing for interstellar space exploration.
Massive Photons Could Explain Dark Matter, But Don’t
I’ll be the first to admit that we don’t understand dark matter. We do know for sure that something funny…
Astronomers are Using NASA’s Deep Space Network to Hunt for Magnetars
Right, magnetars. Perhaps one of the most ferocious beasts to inhabit the cosmos. Loud, unruly, and temperamental, they blast their…
How The Sun’s Scorching Corona Stays So Hot
We've got a mystery on our hands. The surface of the sun has a temperature of about 6,000 Kelvin -…
CERN is Planning to Build a Much Larger Particle Collider. Much, Much, Larger.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, wants to build a particle collider that will dwarf the Large Hadron Collider…