A century later, the quantum the land is still incredibly productive and stubborn a miracle. Its equations are parallel laser devices and LEDsguide the MRI scanner, and underwrite the transistors that heat up our phones, yet leave us confused as to what numbers it really tells us about the truth. The theory predicts about amazing … Read more
For more than 50 years, people have been telling amazing stories about a small fish called a shellear.Parakneria thysi) climbing waterfalls. Now researchers say they have filmed the behavior for the first time. Their findings were published in Scientific Reports. Pacifique Kiwele Mutambala, a researcher at the University of Lubumbashi, and Emmanuel Vreven, ichthyologist Royal … 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
By mid-2025, the group of physicists to Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved something that had eluded researchers for nearly a century: the direct visualization of an obscure “second sound.” This is a rare regime there temperature it is no longer different but moves like the wavehumming like sound in a quantum liquid. The findings, published … Read more
Science and energy production are closely linked. In recent years, we have made several amazing scientific discoveries that may hold the future of energy production in their hands. But to realize the strange condition of the matter that existed considered impossible for more than 50 years it may hold the answers to powering our future … Read more
The asteroid that recently dominated the headlines, 3I/ATLAS, may be between 10 and 12 billion years old, a new analysis of the isotopic composition of the comet has shown. This so-called “invader” in our planetary system is only the third object reported to enter our cosmic environment from beyond. If these predictions of new comet … Read more
For more than two decades, textbooks and science fairs have been telling the same story that the universe is not only expanding, but accelerating. Now a new wave of data is quietly shaking up that picture and giving new life to a mysterious ending called the Big Crunch, where everything in the universe finally collapses … Read more
A hundred years ago, Albert Einstein predicted that massive objects in orbit would send small spirals into space themselves and gradually line up together. Astronomers are now watching that process happen, step by step, in dying stars about 4,000 light-years from Earth. Their slow collision is not just cosmic drama. It gives scientists the clearest … Read more
Quick facts What is: The Crab Nebula (also called M1), a supernova remnant Where it is: 6,500 light-years away, in the constellation Taurus When it was shared: March 23, 2026 The The Hubble TelescopeThe incredible longevity gives astronomers the opportunity to see not only what distant objects look like up close but also how they … Read more
When you make a purchase through our article links, Future and its affiliates may receive a commission. The Crab Nebula, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera. | Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, W. Blair (JHU). Image Editing: J. DePasquale (STScI)) Quick facts What is: The Crab Nebula (also called M1), a supernova … Read more