How Quantum Physicists ‘Flipped Time’ (and How They Didn’t)
Two teams have made photons act as if time were simultaneously flowing in two directions. The...
Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes | Quanta Magazine
In three-dimensional space, the surface of a black hole must be a sphere. But a new...
Standard Model of Cosmology Survives JWST’s Surprising Finds | Quanta Magazine
Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have...
Inside Ancient Asteroids, Gamma Rays Made Building Blocks of Life | Quanta Magazine
A new radiation-based mechanism adds to the ways that amino acids could have been made in...
‘Fullertubes’ Join the Family of Carbon Crystals
The buckminsterfullerene revolution never came, but some researchers are eagerly exploring the properties of newfound carbon...
She Turns Fluids Into ‘Black Holes’ and ‘Inflating Universes’ | Quanta Magazine
By using fluids to model inaccessible realms of the cosmos, Silke Weinfurtner is “looking for a...
Asymmetry Detected in the Distribution of Galaxies
Two new studies suggest that certain tetrahedral arrangements of galaxies outnumber their mirror images, potentially reflecting...
Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence | Quanta Magazine
Maintenance of the software that’s used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a...
Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer | Quanta Magazine
The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information. The post Physicists...
Why This Universe? New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical. | Quanta Magazine
Two physicists have calculated that the universe has a higher entropy — and is therefore more...
How to Think About Relativity
Albert Einstein’s ideas about space-time aren’t exactly intuitive, and they aren’t exactly Einstein’s, either. The post...
The Enduring Mystery of the Dragonfly 44 Galaxy
A growing catalog of huge but dim galaxies such as Dragonfly 44 is forcing astronomers to...
A Dream of Discovering Alien Life Finds New Hope
For Lisa Kaltenegger and her generation of exoplanet astronomers, decades of planning have set the stage...
Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Could Help Explain Dark Matter | Quanta Magazine
A recent gamma-ray burst known as the BOAT — “brightest of all time” — appears to...
Experiments Spell Doom for Decades-Old Explanation of Quantum Weirdness
Physical-collapse theories have long offered a natural solution to the central mystery of the quantum world....
Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable
The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity,...