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Physicists recreated the first millisecond after the Big Bang — and found it was surprisingly soupyScientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after the Big Bang
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Record-breaking gravitational wave puts Einstein's relativity to its toughest test yet — and proves him right againA record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet.
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Upgrade to Antarctica 'ghost particle' observatory could pave the way to physics breakthroughsThe National Science Foundation's massive IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole just got a major new upgrade, which promises to take the search for "ghost particles" to a new level.
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Physicists push quantum boundaries by turning a superfluid into a supersolid — and back — for the first timePhysicists saw excitons, a type of quasiparticle, undergo a reversible phase transition from superfluid to supersolid for the first time, opening new doors for studying extreme states of matter.
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Scientists smash record for superposition, bringing quantum world tantalizingly close to realityResearchers have demonstrated that a nanoparticle of 7,000 sodium atoms can act as a wave, creating a record-setting superposition.
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Dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at 'fundamental breakthrough' in particle physicsAstronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.
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Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France's prestigious 'Grand Mathematics Prize' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are 'lost in the mail' — Jan. 9, 1816Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined to attend the award ceremony because the committee members didn't respect her work.
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Science history: Richard Feynman gives a fun little lecture — and dreams up an entirely new field of physics — Dec. 29, 1959In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest scale. It would precede the field of nanotechnology by decades.
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How many holes does the human body have?You might think that the human body has many holes, but that number shrinks when you stop to consider what counts as a hole.
