Physics

Liquid water in -70 Celsius: Scientists break down water's weirdness

New peer-reviewed experiments on supercooled water corroborate the transition between high- and low-density liquid states.

The water park
CERN Antimatter factory.

The universe did not collapse: CERN researchers transport antimatter

People protest against the nuclear deal reached with Iran before U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets with Jewish community leaders at the David Posnack Jewish Community Center to discuss the deal on Sept. 3, 2015 in Davie, Florida.

Why trusting physics, not politics, once kept Iran in check - opinion

A woman sleeping with her shoes on

Physicists pinpoint mechanism behind familiar basketball shoes squeak


The collision of stars rockets scientists' understanding of physics

Scientists have detected cosmic "bursts" which indicate the occurrence of a celestial event where stars collided, merged and collapsed into a black hole.

Artist's impression of neutron stars merging, producing gravitational waves and resulting in a kilonova

New CERN data dismisses apparent anomaly in Standard Model of Physics

While earlier data from CERN found that beauty quarks weren't behaving as expected, new analysis shows the prior data was flawed.

A general view of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Saint-Genis-Pouilly near Geneva in Switzerland, July 23, 2014

'Dark photons' may be what makes up dark matter - study

"Dark photons" could help explain why cosmic intergalactic filaments are hotter than predicted by the Standard Model of Physics.

 Dark matter and gas (Illustrative).

Schrodinger's black hole? Bizarre quantum properties of stellar bodies revealed

A team of researchers found that a simulated black hole could have multiple masses simultaneously.

 The collision of two black holes - a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO - is seen in this still image from a computer simulation released in Washington February 11, 2016

Neutrinos traced back to a specific galaxy for first time

The detection was made at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive neutrino telescope below the surface of Antarctica.

 Front view of the IceCube Lab at twilight, with a starry sky showing a glimpse of the Milky Way overhead and sunlight lingerin​​g on the horizon

'Brightest-ever' gamma ray burst has scientists around the world excited

The burst, known as GRB 221009A but nicknamed the "B.O.A.T." (Brightest Of All Time), disrupted Earth's ionosphere.

 Animated GIF of gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A constructed using data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope

Behavior of star clusters challenge Newton's laws of gravity

Data from open star clusters seems to fit better with an alternate theory of gravity.

The Pleiades, an open cluster consisting of approximately 3,000 stars at a distance of 400 light-years (120 parsecs) from Earth.

Does our brain use quantum computation?

One of the authors of the study said that quantum brain processes could explain why humans can outperform supercomputers.

 The brain (illustrative).

Eduard Shyfrin speaks at Jewish studies conference in Jerusalem

Shyfrin spoke via Zoom on “Kabbalah of Information: Absence of Information is Information". He explained how Kabbalistic ideas can be explained using the support of information theory and physics.

 Eduard Shyfrin, PhD, and Professor Moshe Idel, president of the World Union of Jewish Studies

New phase of matter could protect quantum computers against errors

The researchers still need to find a way to integrate the phase with the computational side of quantum computing.

An inside look at an ion trap within Quantinuum's quantum computer, which processes data using trapped-ion technology, Broomfield, US in this handout picture from 2019