Physics

"Extreme, transient conditions": Never-before-seen material found in remnants of nuclear detonation

“Extreme, transient conditions produced by nuclear detonations can generate solid-state phases inaccessible to conventional synthesis,” wrote the researchers.

A mushroom cloud rises above Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands in 1946 handout provided by US Library of Congress; illustrative.
PROF. YANIV DOVER brings physics-based thinking to the social sciences

Decoding the digital pulse: How Prof. Yaniv Dover maps the flow of information and human behavior

Prof. Yaniv Dover, Associate Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean for Research at the Hebrew University Business School

Patterns of influence: Inside Prof. Yaniv Dover’s physics-inspired view of marketing

The water park

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


The quietest place on earth will drive you insane

In 2015, Microsoft built a room that is now officially designated in the Guinness Book of Records as the quietest place on Earth.

 Radio frequency anechoic chamber, Antennas Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. The interior surfaces are covered with pyramidal Radiation Absorbent Material (RAM) which are made of rubberized foam impregnated with mixtures of carbon and iron.

Israeli scientists shed light on mysterious matter jets in space - study

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan have re-examined the data and now apparently solved the puzzle.

 An example of a pulsar, a neutron star emitting beams of electromagnetic radiation (Illustrative).

Laser experiment breaks record crossing University of Maryland hallway

The experiment, which made a hole in the wall and fired the laser into the 50-meter long hallway, set a new record

 A laser is sent down a UMD hallway in an experiment to corral light as it makes a 45-meter journey.

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.