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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...
What's causing a weird, repeating signal from space? Astronomers are stumped.
Astronomy Magazine· 4 hours agoWhen astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of...
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...
The world's strongest ionizing terahertz radiation | Newswise
Newswise· 13 hours agoTerahertz waves, known as non-ionizing radiation, can turn into ionization radiation when...
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...
Microscopic Marvel: A Photonic Device that Could Change Physics and Lasers Forever
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoRensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have developed the first topological quantum simulator...
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...
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...
“Extraordinary” Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoNo other radio-emitting neutron star, out of the more than 3000 discovered so far, has been...
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...