Researchers have successfully measured the quantum structure of radium monofluoride (RaF) using ion-trapping and specialized laser techniques, allowing for the detailed characterization of its rotational energy levels and establishing a laser-cooling scheme. These findings are crucial for future experiments focused on laser-cooling and trapping RaF molecules, which are expected to...

Physicists Just Made a Breakthrough That Could Explain Why We Exist

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Physicists have struggled to understand the nature of time since the field began. But a new theoretical study suggests time could be an illusion woven at the quantum level.

Time might be a mirage created by quantum physics, study suggests

An international team of astronomers employing NASA’s Webb Space Telescope captured an exoplanet 12 light years away, and in a location that may be familiar to fans of science fiction. The alien planet orbits the K-type star Epsilon Indi A, which is around the same age as Earth’s Sun, but is slightly cooler.

NASA's Image Of An Alien Planet 12 Light Years Away Gives Astronomers Chills

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Quantum information theory is the field behind quantum computing, but experts in this field are also applying their way of thinking to some big questions in quantum physics.

Quantum information theorists are shedding light on entanglement, one of the spooky mysteries of quantum mechanics

Another nail may seal the coffin of the muon as a venue for new physics. A team of physicists taking highly precise calculations of the muon’s properties in simulations found the particle’s properties more in line with the Standard Model than previously believed. The team is called the...

The Muon Fails to Upend Physics as We Know It

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Do dead stars glow? A strange gravitational phenomenon could be generating enormous amounts of light around neutron stars, new research suggests.

Dead stars sometimes shine again — and gravity itself may be responsible

Is nature really as strange as quantum theory says — or are there simpler explanations? Neutron measurements prove: It doesn’t work without the strange properties of quantum theory. Quantum theory allows particles to exist in superposition states, defying classical realism. The Leggett-Garg inequality tests this by comparing quantum...

Mind-Bending Discovery: Neutrons Defy Classical Physics in Astonishing Experiment

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Researcher: ‘I’ve been excited about it for nine straight months.’

University of Utah research shows evidence of the closest known example of a black hole

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

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New research suggests a black hole doesn’t have a point of infinite density. Roy Kerr is a legend. Back in 1963, the highly decorated mathematician from New Zealand found an exact solution to the field equations for Einstein’s General Relativity. This solution was the first to model a realistic, rotating black hole accurately. The importance of this cannot be understated. The General Relativity field equations are notoriously complex, and exact solutions that work in the real world and not just on paper are exceedingly difficult to find.

Black Hole Singularities Might Not Exist

Episolon Indi is a trio of stars, which is a complicated situation already — but two of them aren’t even real stars; they’re brown dwarfs, objects just a smidgeon too small to be stars, but several smidgeons too big to be planets. And now the system boasts an enormous gas giant in its outskirts, where astronomers didn’t expect it to be.

Astronomers Were Looking for a Planet, but They Didn't Expect This One

Dark energy remains among the greatest puzzles in our understanding of the cosmos. In the standard model of cosmology called the Lambda-CDM, it is accounted for by adding a cosmological constant term in Einstein's field equation first introduced by Einstein himself. This constant is very small and positive and lacks a complete theoretical understanding of why it has such a tiny value. Moreover, dark energy has some peculiar features, such as negative pressure and does not dilute with cosmic expansion, which makes at least some of us uncomfortable.

A higher-dimensional model can help explain cosmic acceleration without dark energy

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Tycho Brahe is famous for his achievements as an astronomer, but he was equally interested in alchemy and may have been ahead of his time there as well.

Hidden Elements Found In The Alchemy Laboratory Of One History’s Greatest Astronomers

Over the last 25 years, black hole physics has experienced something of a revolution.

In the last 25 years, black hole physicists have uncovered the unimaginable

Søren Kierkegaard once wrote, “Life can only be understood backwards… but it must be lived forwards.” He painted life as a paradox. His point is that we look back on the past as some fixed thing — but the future is worryingly uncertain. Here we...

How the Kierkegaard view of hindsight can help us reframe our work-lives

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The encounter with Saturn altered the comet's orbit to a highly flattened or elliptical shape, propelling it into interstellar space beyond the sun's influence.

Newly discovered comet gets kicked out of solar system by Saturn at 6,710 mph

When galaxy clusters collide, the normal matter in each cluster heats up, emitting X-rays and radio waves, and shows evidence of shocks, while the remaining mass, including dark matter, simply passes through unimpeded. People have often wondered how the normal matter appears to exhibit such high speeds in these collisions, as evidenced by its extreme observed separation from the rest of the mass, including dark matter. A combination of new observations and novel simulation work reveal a surprising twist: the normal matter slows down much earlier than previously thought, implying lower collision speeds overall, solving a great puzzle within cosmology.

Astronomers solve longstanding galaxy cluster collision puzzle

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

In an exciting breakthrough for astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial life, a team of international scientists has announced the discovery of Gliese 12 b, a temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet just 40 light-years away — a relatively neighbourly 378 trillion kilometres from earth. Researchers from across the world, including key...

Nearby Earth-Sized Planet Discovered in Habitable Zone

They predate the other stars in the area by billions of years.

Ancient Stars Found In Unlikely Region Of The Milky Way

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Quantum mechanics disproves an exotic type of black hole

Black holes are traditionally thought to require a large mass, but they can also be created by concentrating energy, as in the theoretical type of black...

Quantum mechanics disproves an exotic type of black hole

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