How dark energy changed cosmology forever
Let’s rewind the clock back…oh, I don’t know, let’s say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his general theory...
Could mass come from the shape of space instead of the Higgs Boson?
In modern physics, the Higgs boson is famous for giving particles their mass.
But a new study suggests an entirely different possibility: mass might come...
Princeton builds a qubit that lasts 1,000 times longer than today’s chips
In a groundbreaking leap toward practical quantum computers, engineers at Princeton University have created a superconducting qubit that lasts over one millisecond—three times longer...
Is the universe slowing down? New evidence challenges what we know about dark energy
For more than 25 years, scientists have believed that the universe is expanding faster and faster, pushed apart by a mysterious force called dark...
Scientists create artificial proteins that can store and conduct electricity
Scientists in Spain have developed a new class of artificial proteins that can conduct and store electricity—paving the way for safer, faster, and more...
Tiny dwarf galaxies help solve a 40-year dark matter debate
For decades, scientists have puzzled over why galaxies spin faster than expected.
The stars in their outer regions move so quickly that, by the laws...
Giant stars may have forged the universe’s oldest star clusters, study finds
Astronomers have long puzzled over how the oldest and most mysterious star clusters in the universe—known as globular clusters—came to be.
Now, an international research...
Astronomers witness brightest and most distant black hole flare ever recorded
Astronomers have captured the most powerful and farthest black hole flare ever recorded—a cosmic light show so bright it outshined 10 trillion suns.
The flare,...
Dark matter obeys gravity just like ordinary matter, scientists discover
For decades, scientists have been trying to understand dark matter—the mysterious, invisible substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe.
It...
Tiny galaxies prove dark matter is real, defying modified gravity theories
A new international study has provided one of the clearest signs yet that dark matter—not a change in gravity—is responsible for the mysterious way...