How magma oceans may affect the evolution of hot exoplanets
Lava worlds, massive exoplanets home to sparkling skies and roiling volcanic seas called magma oceans, are distinctly unlike the planets in our solar system.
To...
How quantum squeezing makes discoveries clearer
Do you remember those days when you’re in a video meeting and the internet is terrible?
Sometimes, we simply lower the video quality to hear...
Intriguing realm of extremal Kerr black holes could amplify new physics
Black holes continue to intrigue scientists with their enigmatic presence and mysterious properties.
Recent research from the University of California–Santa Barbara, University of Warsaw, and...
Galactic surprise: Early universe full of milky way lookalikes!
Once upon a time, astronomers believed that galaxies like our own Milky Way were rare gems in the early universe.
The theory was that the...
If you could see gravitational waves, the universe would look like this
Imagine if you could see gravitational waves.
Of course, humans are too small to sense all but the strongest gravitational waves, so imagine you were...
We can’t see the first stars yet, but we can see their direct descendants
If you take a Universe worth of hydrogen and helium, and let it stew for about 13 billion years, you get us.
We are the...
Scientists create powerful magnets to de-freeze quantum computing
Quantum computers are like super-smart calculators that can solve really tough problems much faster than regular computers.
They could change the world by helping us...
A new study reveals that matter makes up 31% of the universe
In a groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal, an international team of scientists, including researchers at Chiba University, have successfully measured the total...
How much ‘stuff’ is in the universe? scientists say 31%
Matter—like stars, planets, and everything on Earth—makes up about 31% of everything that exists in the universe.
Scientists detect oxygen atom breaks apart in a way no one has seen before
Most of the stuff around us, like air, water, and rocks, are stable and don't change much. But some things are not stable and...