The Universe isn’t flat – it’s curved
The current cosmological scenario, based on inflation, dark matter, and a cosmological constant, seems unable to fit all observations.” --Dr Eleonora Di Valentino
A new...
Scientists create more effective light-trapping devices
Anyone who’s ever played the drums, tuned a guitar, or even made a wine glass “sing” by circling a finger along its edge knows...
Interstellar buckyballs may come from dying stars, says study
New research may explain how “buckyballs”—complex carbon molecules with a soccer-ball-like structure—form in space.
Carbon 60, or C60 for short, (the official name is Buckminsterfullerene)...
Protons are smaller than we thought (and that’s a big deal)
Protons, the little positively-charged nuggets inside an atoms, are fractions of a quadrillionth of a meter smaller than anyone thought, according to new research.
In...
Scientists reveal new state of matter
For years, physicists have assumed that Cooper pairs, the electron duos that enable superconductors to conduct electricity without resistance, were two-trick ponies.
The pairs either...
Ancient gas cloud reveals universe’s first stars formed quickly
The discovery of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of gas enabled a team of Carnegie astronomers to perform the earliest-ever measurement of how the...
A new quantum leap: Physicists one step closer to building quantum transducer
New study sheds light on the development of a device for converting quantum information to new frequencies.
New research by University of Alberta physicists is...
This mysterious exoplanet shouldn’t exist where it is
Researchers have found an exoplanet that, according to current theories, shouldn’t exist in its current location.
Researchers studied the red-giant stars HD 212771 and HD...
Scientists demonstrate the power of 53 entangled qubits in quantum supremacy
Researchers in UC Santa Barbara/Google scientist John Martinis’ group have made good on their claim to quantum supremacy.
Using 53 entangled quantum bits (“qubits”), their...
If wormholes exist, this is how we might find one
A new study outlines a method for detecting wormholes, which form a passage between two separate regions of spacetime.
The speculative phenomenon that has long...