IntroductionString theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a patch...
Is Robotics About to Have Its Own ChatGPT Moment?Melissa Heikkilä | MIT Technology Review“For decades, roboticists have more or less focused on controlling robots’...
Black holes are known for ferocious gravitational fields. Anything wandering too close, even light, will be swallowed up. But other forces may be at...
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(Nanowerk News) Ever since its discovery, dark matter has remained invisible to scientists, despite the launch of multiple ultra-sensitive particle detector experiments...
Gravastars, hypothetical alternatives to black holes, could end up nested inside one another like a Russian Matryoshka doll – according to new calculations that...
IntroductionPhysicists have begun to explore the proton as if it were a subatomic planet. Cutaway maps display newfound details of the particle’s interior. The...
IntroductionQuantum teleportation isn’t just science fiction; it’s entirely real and happening in laboratories today. But teleporting quantum particles and information is a far cry...
The motion of freely-falling bodies is independent of their composition. This is one of the foundations of Einstein’s Equivalence Principle (EEP), which underpins our...
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Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever.
In a clever tabletop experiment,...