Spread the loveTweet In other experiments, meanwhile, increasingly sensitive efforts to capture the putative dark matter particles drifting in space (and through our bodies) have also come up empty, and…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / The developers of a new wireless charging tech are thinking big—automobile battery big. reader comments 48 Share this story Anyone who has ever left the…
Spread the loveTweet reader comments 5 Share this story A key feature of scientific theories is that they make successful predictions, which we can use to determine whether they’re likely…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / The orbits of stars and gas around the Milky Way’s black hole. reader comments 90 Share this story Testing general relativity is a fraught business.…
Spread the loveTweet LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet) reader comments 17 Share this story Today, the team behind the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is announcing the detection of a third…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / The LHC’s ATLAS detector while under construction. reader comments 45 Share this story Believe it or not, particle physics has a season, just like baseball.…
Spread the loveTweet Enlarge / The Bullet Cluster, which has been viewed as a demonstration of dark matter. reader comments 34 Share this story The Universe is a strange place.…
Spread the loveTweet An atomic clock based on a fountain of atoms. reader comments 29 Share this story Countless experiments around the world are hoping to reap scientific glory for…
Spread the loveTweet Fidget spinners are the new Rubik’s Cube. Or maybe the new Tamagotchi. Or … I don’t know. Pick your fad. You see these toys, ostensibly designed to help…
Spread the loveTweet There are about 60 such light sources in the world, which have been become increasingly valuable as tools in medicine and engineering. In April, for example, scientists…
