Tracking down dark matter
Matter surrounds us day and night in all its forms -- trees, houses, furniture, and even the air we breathe. But, according to physicists, the visible matter familiar to us…
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A new candidate for dark matter and a way to detect it
Two theoretical physicists at the University of California, Davis have a new candidate for dark matter, and a possible way to detect it. They presented their work June 6 at…
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Physics: Behavior of ‘trapped’ electrons in a one-dimensional world observed in the lab
A team of physicists at the University of Cologne has, for the first time, seen a particularly exotic behaviour of electrons on an atomic scale. Electrons normally move almost freely…
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Physicists are decoding math-y secrets of knitting to make bespoke materials
Enlarge / Introducing topological defects into knitted patterns can shape the (a) out-of-plane elasticity of a stuffed rabbit (left), and (b) the in-plane deformations of knitted textiles (right).Elisabetta Matsumoto reader…
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Happy Death Day 2 U, Russian Doll give us time loops with a multiverse twist
Enlarge / (left) Natasha Lyonne as Nadia Vulvokov in Russian Doll. (right) Jessica Rothe as Theresa "Tree" Gelbman in Happy Death Day 2 U. Both women find themselves caught in…
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Aluminum may be key to making exosolar systems with water worlds
Enlarge / Should we expect all the planets of an exosolar system to have similar levels of water? reader comments 11 with 11 posters participating Share this story Mini-Neptunes. Super-Earths.…
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