The researchers recorded a small number of unexplained signals suspected to be lightweight dark matter. A cutting-edge experiment led by the University of Zurich and the Hebrew University has made a ...
Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...
In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own nominations, and there were plenty of good suggestions. So I’ve decided to do a ...
Piefer’s 50-year forecast seems a long way off, but progress shown by SHINE and NorthStar means the future is here in the sense that isotopes produced by both companies are already treating patients ...
A top South Korean official said Thursday that North Korea is operating a total of four uranium enrichment facilities, adding ...
It's a sunny June day in southeast England. I'm driving along a quiet, rural road that stretches through the Kent countryside. The sun flashes through breaks in the hedgerow, offering glimpses of ...
The political theorist Corey Robin walks through the history of the Red Scare and the “fractured mirror” it is to Trump’s attack on the “radical left.” ...
Bunkers, bomb shelters, mines and mountains all play critical roles protecting against our latest existential threat: the terrifying prospect of data loss.
As Iran's ailing economy braced Saturday for the reimposition of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program, it is ordinary people who increasingly find themselves priced out of the food they ...
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Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...
Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of radiation and particles that can be detected here on Earth. Among them are photons ...
Highlights:For the first time, high-grade mineralization has been intersected at surface in the North Zone with NAK25-47, returning:73 m of 0.89% CuEq, within277 m of 0.40% CuEq from Surface In ...