Scientists Amplify the Universe’s Faintest Signals 1,000x to Reveal Dark Matter
Scientists have developed a groundbreaking atom interferometer capable of amplifying faint signals by 1,000 times — making it ...
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
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Physicists unveil atomic nucleus deformation in hunt for dark forces
The international team also used the data to get direct information about the deformation of the atomic nucleus in ytterbium ...
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Mantis Shrimp Pack a Punch With the Force of a Bullet—and They Don’t Get Hurt. Here’s How
In a new study, scientists tested the complex layers in the animal's clubs that serve as mighty shields to absorb the shock of the impact ...
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Department of Energy Scientists Discover Unexpected New Method of Detecting High-Energy Protons
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a highly sensitive sensor ...
Physicists Are Using Time Itself to Crack the Dark Matter Puzzle
Scientists have taken a bold step toward understanding dark matter, the invisible force shaping the cosmos. Using atomic ...
Quantum computers successfully model particle scattering
Scattering takes place across the universe at large and miniscule scales. Billiard balls clank off each other in bars, the ...
In a first, physicists set an upper limit in the search for hybrid mesons
Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Curtis Meyer and his research colleagues explore an uncharted world inside protons and ...
Exploration Mysteries: The Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment was a famous conspiracy theory about a ship called the USS Eldridge that was supposedly ...
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How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics
Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights ...
The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede
A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd.
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Work Done by a Force
Work is the measure of energy transferred to or from an object when a force is applied over a displacement, providing the link between forces and energy. This concept explains how energy moves in ...