News Categories
Latest News
The 3-Body Problem Just Got an Upgrade—and You Can Thank Einstein - Gizmodo
A double sunset appears to be a true rarity in the cosmos, and general relativity explains why.
Reddit Mod Deleted Breathtaking Photo Taken by NASA Astronaut From Space Because It Was Blurry - Futurism
A moderator at the r/aviation subreddit didn’t look too kindly on a shot by astronaut Don Pettit, deeming it too “blurry” and taking it down.
Supermassive black holes sit in 'eye of their own storms,' studies find - Phys.org
Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we’ve lacked a precise picture of what impact they have on their surroundings. However, a University of Chicago-led group of scientists has used data from a recently launch…
Physicists achieve near-zero friction on macroscopic scales - Phys.org
For the first time, physicists in China have virtually eliminated the friction felt between two surfaces at scales visible to the naked eye. In demonstrating “structural superlubricity,” the team, led by Quanshui Zheng at Tsinghua University, have resolved a …
2.6-million-year-old jawbone changes the story of human history - Earth.com
A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives and their diets.
A new class of strange one-dimensional particles - Phys.org
Physicists have long categorized every elementary particle in our three-dimensional universe as being either a boson or a fermion—the former category mostly capturing force carriers like photons, the latter including the building blocks of everyday matter lik…