At Last, There’s Evidence of Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
The NANOGrav team was essentially able to turn the Milky Way into a giant gravitational wave detector by measuring the ...
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You Might Survive a Nuclear Blast—if You Have the Right Shelter
But let’s be honest: Most people, even in the moderate damage zone, won’t survive. Hardly anyone lives or works in ...
How to Measure Ripples in Spacetime
When a gravitational wave passes through Earth, it causes space itself to stretch in one direction and compress in the ...
A Crucial Particle Physics Computer Program Risks Obsolescence
Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. ...
It’s Time to Break Bad Pandemic Learning Habits
I’ve been in academics for more than 20 years as a member of the physics faculty at Southeastern Louisiana University ...
Antimatter Could Travel Through Our Galaxy With Ease, Physicists Say
A team of physicists determined that enigmatic ‘antinuclei’ can travel across the universe without being absorbed by the interstellar medium. ...
Could Namor’s Ankle Wings From ‘Black Panther 2’ Really Work?
But you don't have to be a superhero to experience this kind of flight. If you have a set of ...
The Physics of Smashing a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid
There are a couple of things to notice. First, after the collision DART is moving backwards, because it bounced. Since ...
Where Do High-Energy Cosmic Rays Come From? A Star’s Last Gasp
Gamma rays from this supernova remnant have been seen by telescopes since 2007, but exceptionally energetic light wasn’t detected until ...
How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
Most of the quantum fields that fill our universe have one, and only one, preferred state, in which they’ll remain ...