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How materials that rewind light can test physics' most extreme ideas
New Scientist· 4 days agoThen, as the waves spread, he gave the tank a practised jolt – at which point they suddenly started...
A New Search for Ripples in Space From the Beginning of Time
New York Times· 4 days agoA new $110 million observatory in the high desert of northern Chile, $90 million financed by the...
A strange intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled
The Raw Story· 19 hours agoWhen astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of...
Microscopic Marvel: A Photonic Device that Could Change Physics and Lasers Forever
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoRensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have developed the first topological quantum simulator...
Scientists find strange spinning star going shockingly slowly
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days agoResearchers never expected such a finding and say that it could shed new light on how stars are born...
How we can understand our universe through math
Astronomy Magazine· 7 days agoIn the past quarter century, astronomical observations have led to discoveries that have literally transformed our conception of the universe. One such...
The Hunt for Ultralight Dark Matter
Wired News· 5 days agoSince the 1990s, experiments have been looking for signs of WIMPs occasionally interacting with protons and neutrons via the weak force. This means WIMPs...
Astronomers Struggle to Explain Why Ancient Black Holes Are Nowhere to Be Found
Futurism via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWhen the Big Bang gave birth to our universe 13.8 billion years ago, one of the first things to...
NASA, Global Astronomers Await Rare Nova Explosion - NASA
NASA· 20 hours agoAround the world this summer, professional and amateur astronomers alike will be fixed on one small...
Unusual space signals detected in Western Australia upend what we know about neutron stars
Cosmos· 2 days agoAstronomers in Australia have observed a neutron star spinning more slowly than any other previously...