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A smashing success: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider wraps up final collisions - Phys.org
Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated through the twin 2.4-mile-circumference rings of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and crashed into one another at nearly the sp…
Seeing the Quantum Butterfly Effect - American Physical Society
A combined experimental and theoretical study reveals the emergence of quantum chaos in a complex system, suggesting that it can be described with a universal theoretical framework.
Discovery of Two New Interstellar-Meteor Candidates - Avi Loeb – Medium
In a new paper that I co-authored with my brilliant postdoc Richard Cloete, available here, we report the identification of two previously…
Tiny Enceladus exercises giant electromagnetic influence at Saturn - Phys.org
A major study by an international team of researchers using data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has revealed a lattice-like structure of crisscrossing reflected waves that flow downstream behind the moon in Saturn’s equatorial plane, but also reach …
In Antarctica, balloon lands after 23-day search for particles from outer space - Phys.org
After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA ballo…
Dinosaurs Were Speed Demons, New Fossil Footprints Prove They Could Sprint Like Athletes! - The Daily Galaxy
Dinosaurs weren’t just about size and strength; some of them were also incredibly fast. Recent footprints discovered in Mongolia have revealed just how quick these creatures could really move.