A great white shark Caught in the Mediterranean has continued a long scientific investigation into a population many thought extinct. An unusual encounter, reported off the coast of Spain, has forced researchers to reassess more than 160 years of evidence. For example, height of about 210 cm and weight between 80 and 90 kgit was … Read more
A photon from a star billions of light-years away takes no time to reach a telescope. It’s not too little time. There is nothing. That result is not a measured or poetic way of speaking. It comes directly from the mathematics of special relativity, and it points to another strange thing about the nature of … Read more
Elliot McGucken These photos of 70-foot-tall cones of light shining in the California desert may look pretty, but they have a surface and actually represent some interesting ideas about the evolution of space-time. Dr. Elliot McGucken is a nationally recognized photographer and Ph.D. a physicist. He likes to combine his two passions, which he believes … Read more
When Ryland Grace arrived at Tau Ceti in Ahe Mary projectalmost four years have passed for his human body and weak mind. But, due to the effects of time dilation, about 12 to 14 years have passed on Earth. And that’s just the beginning of the story. At the end of the Ahe Mary projectdecades … Read more
Six Timepix chips developed at CERN will measure the radiation environment in the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II mission. At 00:35 CEST today, the mission of Artemis II successfully began, marking the first manned trip to the Moon since 1972. During their ten-day journey in the Orion spacecraft, the four … Read more
Xia, Y. et al. Superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe2. Nature 6372025–838 (2025). Article Google Scholar Guo, Y. et al. Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2. Nature 637839–845 (2025). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Cao, Y. et al. Correlative behavior of half-filling magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 55680–84 (2018). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Yankowitz, … Read more
A Theory of Gravity That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Minutes The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always posed a problem. Physics can explain a lot about the universe once it’s stable and expanding, but in the beginning, when heat and energy were extremes, it was still hard to pin … Read more
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider accidentally turned lead into gold while trying to recreate the Big Bang. Researchers working on the “Alice” experiment at Cern, Switzerland, have produced a rare precious metal as they try to recreate conditions from shortly after the universe began. Medieval alchemists had tried to turn lead into gold for … Read more
New species of pit snake discovered living in caves – credit, courtesy of Fauna & Flora © An amazing journey through the limestone cliffs and deep into the cave that it contains, has revealed many new species of reptiles, including a brilliant snake that you have to see to believe. While exploring more than 60 … Read more
Summer is a busy season at Schirmacher Oasis, an ice-free rocky outcrop on Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. It is near the base of the Nivlisen Ice Shelf and about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the open waters of the Lazarev Sea, the country’s “oasis” in the middle of a continuous glacier is home to … Read more