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Time May Actually Be One Big Illusion, Says a New Study
Prevention via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThe passage of time puzzles scientists, who seek to fit it into a cohesive model. One theory says...
Revising Relativity: How Modified Gravity Challenges Einstein and Dark Matter
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoGroundbreaking new research reveals that rotation curves of galaxies stay flat indefinitely far out,...
Shattering the Limits of Classical Physics: Quantum Entanglement Measures Earth's Rotation Like...
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoA quantum physics experiment at the University of Vienna achieved groundbreaking precision in...
What Came Before the Big Bang?
Wired News· 15 hours agoRobert Brandenberger, a physicist at McGill University who was not involved with the study, said the new paper “sets a new standard of rigor for the...
Slow-Motion Supernovae Prove Einstein Right Again
Scientific American· 2 days agoDespite more than a century of efforts to show otherwise, it seems Albert Einstein can still do no wrong. Or at least that’s the case for his special ...
The dominant model of the universe is creaking
The Economist· 4 days agoIN ARIZONA, AT Kitt Peak National Observatory, a telescope has spent three years building a three-dimensional map of the heavens. In examining the light...
Mathematicians Accidentally Found a New Way to Represent Pi
MSN News· 2 days agoOur favorite mathematical constant, pi (π), describing the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter, has taken on new meaning. The new representation was borne out of the twists ...
What happens when neutron stars collide?
Science Daily· 6 days agoA paper describing the simulations, by a research team led by Penn State physicists, appeared in the journal Physical Reviews Letters. "For the first time in 2017, we observed here on Earth ...
How We Could Turn The Earth Into A Giant Telescope
IFLScience· 6 days agoLast month, NASA announced development progress of the Pulsed Plasma Rocket, a new type of thruster that could help enable one of the coolest astronomy projects ever dreamt up. Astronomers use ...