Science This Is the Most Difficult Maze, According to Physicists The labyrinthine fractal is based on movements in chess and strange crystal structures found in the physical world. By Isaac Schultz Published July 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Most Precise Atomic Clock Ever Built Will Only Lose a Second Every 30 Billion Years The device, which traps thousands of atoms to keep time, is "pushing the boundaries of what's possible with timekeeping." By Isaac Schultz Updated July 4, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics We’ll Have to Wait a Bit Longer for the World’s Biggest Fusion Reactor The long-anticipated experiment will have a revised schedule and a different approach to reaching its eventual reactions. By Isaac Schultz Updated July 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Huge, Faltering Fusion Reactor Project Finally Completes Its Magnet System ITER, the largest testing bed for nuclear fusion on Earth, could prove the viability of the power source—if it ever turns on. By Isaac Schultz Published July 1, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Mathematicians Are Excited About a Newly Discovered Shape The unique geometric shape maintains a constant width regardless of the dimension it's measured in. By Isaac Schultz Updated June 20, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics What Is a Quantum Battery? And When Will It Power My Laptop? Join me down the rabbit hole of energy storage's future. By Isaac Schultz Published June 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Scientists Trap Sunlight to Reach Temps of Nearly 2,000 Degrees Fahrenheit The technology has implications for some of the most carbon-intensive processes on the planet. By Isaac Schultz Published May 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Conspiracy Nuts Are Spreading a Bizarre Theory About Those Epic Auroras A severe geomagnetic storm triggered auroras around much of the globe this past weekend, but conspiracy theorists are falsely pointing to a human cause. By Isaac Schultz Updated May 14, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics The Titanic Tourist Sub Was Always Going to Kill Its Passengers As it turns out, if you ignore physics, your submersible won't be very good. Collin Woodard, Jalopnik Published May 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics New Fusion Record Achieved in Tungsten-Encased Reactor A fusion device ensconced in highly durable tungsten sustained a more energetic, denser plasma than previously recorded. By Isaac Schultz Published May 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Physicists Capture First-Ever Image of an Electron Crystal The findings affirm a 90-year-old theory about how electrons can assemble without atoms. By Isaac Schultz Published April 11, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics New Kind of Fusion Reactor Built at Government Lab The stellarator has permanent magnets, a first for a fusion experiment. By Isaac Schultz Updated April 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics The World’s Biggest Digital Camera Is Finally Complete The 3.2-billion-pixel LSST Camera will collect 15 terabytes of data on the southern sky each night. By Isaac Schultz Updated April 3, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Watch the Supersonic XB-1 Take Its First Flight Boom Supersonic's experimental aircraft made its first flight above California, as the company aims to develop a greener successor to the Concorde. By Isaac Schultz Published March 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Your Guide to the Anomalous Universe In Space Oddities , Harry Cliff explores the biggest unsolved mysteries in physics. By Isaac Schultz Published March 23, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Supercomputer Hints at the Existence of ‘Super Diamonds’ Computers have identified a material that's harder than diamonds. Making the stuff presents a tougher test. By Isaac Schultz Published March 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Observatory Buried Under Antarctica Spots Seven Potential ‘Ghost Particles’ The IceCube Observatory’s search for neutrinos has turned up a handful of promising signals. By Isaac Schultz Published March 15, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics These Violent Collisions Could Be Producing Dark Matter The mergers of neutron stars might be extreme enough for new physics. By Isaac Schultz Updated March 13, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Where Do Humans Fit in the Universe? This Physicist Wants to Change Your Perspective In Waves in an Impossible Sea , Matt Strassler explains how human life is intimately connected to the larger cosmos. By Isaac Schultz Published March 9, 2024 | Comments (0)
SciencePhysics Physicists Measure Gravity of Smallest Mass Yet A bundle of magnets and glass had a slight but detectable gravitational pull, pushing scientists closer to the boundary between classical and quantum physics. By Isaac Schultz Published February 23, 2024 | Comments (0)
