All Stories by Emily Conover
- Particle Physics
New particle probably can’t explain nuclear reactor neutrino mystery
An antineutrino anomaly seems due to problems with scientists’ predictions, not sterile neutrinos.
- Physics
Physics trips up efforts to keep shoelaces tied
Loose laces are due to inertia and force of feet hitting the floor.
- Astronomy
Event Horizon Telescope to try to capture images of elusive black hole edge
Network of radio observatories will attempt a first-ever glimpse at an event horizon.
- Astronomy
Asteroid in Jupiter’s orbit goes its own way
Asteroid shares Jupiter’s orbit around the sun but travels in the opposite direction as the planet.
- Quantum Physics
Millions of atoms entangled in record-breaking quantum tests
Scientists make advance in the quest to take quantum effects to larger scales.
- Particle Physics
Large Hadron Collider experiment nabs five new particles
LHCb experiment detects new particles composed of two strange quarks and one charm quark.
- Life
Life on Earth may have begun as dividing droplets
Chemical droplets could split and reproduce in the presence of an energy source, new computer simulations suggest.
- Physics
Single-atom magnets store bits of data
Scientists read and write data by harnessing the magnetic properties of holmium atoms.
- Physics
Superfluid helium behaves like black holes
Simulations of superfluid helium show it follows the same unusual entropy rule that black holes do.
- Quantum Physics
Quantum counterfeiters might succeed
Physicists demonstrate security issue with quantum cash.
- Physics
A slowdown at the sun’s surface explained
Light escaping from the sun could slow the spinning of its surface layers.
- Particle Physics
Rare triplet of high-energy neutrinos detected from an unknown source
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory spotted three neutrinos within 100 seconds that seem to have come from the same place in the sky.
