Tag: physics

The Earth has just added its seventh confirmed quasi-lunar moon. It is 2025 PN7, a small Apollo-type asteroid detected in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have ...

The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are ...

“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, ...

It's fun to think about the fundamental physical constants. These are special values used in our models of the physical ...

What exactly is AI Scientist—just a fancy kind of neural net?It’s not a single neural network, but rather an ensemble ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is discussing plans to eliminate an entire team responsible for publishing ...

That’s what DESI was designed to do: take precise measurements of the apparent size of these bubbles (both near and ...

Quantum computing has enormous potential, but it faces a scalability problem. For such a machine to be useful in real ...

Although fans of A Song of Ice and Fire might still be hankering for the long-delayed next book in the ...