Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking ...

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Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

Another near-term application is the quantum gravity gradiometer being developed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

It means that for astronauts on the ISS, there’s no talk of “spring forward” and “fall back” in March and November, ...

Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

The researchers’ reconstruction shows that by mixing four resets at 358 months (the inex cycle) for every one at 223, the ...

These memory nodes are not random; geometry appears to have been selected over millions ... and gene mutations may have created a self-learning system. “Looking across time,” Backman said, “life ...

Dark-energy evidence suggests the universe will end in a “big crunch” roughly 20 billion years from now. The universe is nearing the halfway point of what may be a 33-billion-year lifespan, according ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Researchers have moved one step closer to solving one of science’s greatest mysteries—why the universe is filled with matter instead of nothing. Scientists at Indiana University have made a major ...