We could get messages back from spacecraft sent through a wormhole
If you ever happen to fall through a wormhole in space, you won’t be coming...
Detecting ultralight dark matter particles using supermassive black holes
Is it time to start looking for alternatives to WIMPs? For almost a century, astrophysicists...
Diamond holds up at pressures more extreme than those in Earth’s core
Diamond stands up to a squeeze. Surprisingly, the material’s structure persists even when compressed to...
‘Fundamentals’ shows how a few basic ingredients build reality
FundamentalsFrank WilczekPenguin Press, $26 As the story is usually told, science began when some deep...
50 years ago, scientists poked holes in polywater| Science News
By the sweat of their brow — Science News, January 23, 1971 Polywater, or anomalous...
Explore every gravitational wave event spotted so far
Throughout the universe, violent collisions of cosmic beasts such as black holes wrench the fabric...
Newton’s Principia may have been more popular than previously thought
Isaac Newton’s 17th century book, the Principia, gave the famed English scientist a reputation: “[T]here...
Supercooled water has been caught morphing between two forms
Supercooled water is two of a kind, a new study shows. Scientists have long suspected...
Giant lasers help re-create supernovas’ explosive, mysterious physics
When one of Hye-Sook Park’s experiments goes well, everyone nearby knows. “We can hear Hye-Sook...
LIGO and Virgo reveal a huge collection of gravitational waves
Earth is awash in gravitational waves. Over a six-month period, scientists captured a bounty of...