Physics

  1. Health & Medicine

    Readers question mental health research

    Maintaining mental health, protecting ocean critters and more in reader feedback.

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  2. 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.

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  3. Materials Science

    Bone-inspired steel cracks less under pressure

    Steel that’s structured like bone resists cracks better that the traditional form of the heavy-duty building material.

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  4. Quantum Physics

    Millions of atoms entangled in record-breaking quantum tests

    Scientists make advance in the quest to take quantum effects to larger scales.

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  5. Particle Physics

    Readers question supernova physics

    Star-destroying neutrinos, heart-hugging robots and more in reader feedback.

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  6. Particle Physics

    Large Hadron Collider experiment nabs five new particles

    LHCb experiment detects new particles composed of two strange quarks and one charm quark.

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  7. Physics

    Single-atom magnets store bits of data

    Scientists read and write data by harnessing the magnetic properties of holmium atoms.

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  8. Physics

    To understand rivers, let physics be your guide

    Where the River Flows unites physics and environmental science to explain Earth’s waterways.

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  9. Physics

    Superfluid helium behaves like black holes

    Simulations of superfluid helium show it follows the same unusual entropy rule that black holes do.

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  10. Quantum Physics

    Quantum counterfeiters might succeed

    Physicists demonstrate security issue with quantum cash.

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  11. Physics

    A slowdown at the sun’s surface explained

    Light escaping from the sun could slow the spinning of its surface layers.

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  12. 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.

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