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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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Created Brain-Reading ‘Threads,’ Surgical Robot That Inserts Them
A robotic surgery machine debuted by Neuralink on July 17, 2019.Screenshot: Neuralink (YouTube) On Tuesday evening in San Francisco, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally shed some light on…
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Freaky Star Seems to Dim Randomly, and Astronomers Don’t Know Why
A graph showing the seemingly random dimming of the star known as EPIC 249706694.Graphic: Rappaport et al (arXiv) What is going on with this strange, winking star? Typically, if the…
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What a never-before-seen radioactive decay could tell us about neutrinos
Bill Fairbank is looking for...nothing. The Colorado State University professor of physics studies the fundamental matter particles known as neutrinos, and an exceedingly rare instance of radioactive decay in which…
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Triplet superconductivity demonstrated under high pressure
Researchers in France and Japan have demonstrated a theoretical type of unconventional superconductivity in a uranium-based material, according to a study published in the journal Physical Review Letters. By using…
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8 Sci-Fi Films That Make No Scientific Sense
Although it would be nice if humans could roll through dinosaur-filled amusement parks in giant hamster balls, we can't always get what we want. Science fiction films are called "fiction" for a reason. They're…
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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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ISRO PSLV-QL Rocket Lifts Off With DRDO Emisat, 28 Other Satellites
A new variant of the India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket on Monday carrying the electronic intelligence satellite, Emisat for the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and 28 other…
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New Close-Ups of the Mini-Moons in Saturn’s Rings
Nestled between Saturn's rings are a collection of mini-moons that NASA's Cassini spacecraft skimmed past in 2017. On Thursday, for the first time, astronomers and scientists are detailing their findings…
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NASA Has Awkward History With Women in Space
History was supposed to be made Friday with the first all-female spacewalk at the International Space Station. On Monday, NASA announced it was scrapping that plan because it didn't have…
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