George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...
The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test ...
What is the meaning of life? Even the best of us couldn't hope to answer that question in a Universe Today article. But there ...
In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...
Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...
A recent study offers proof of feasibility for using cosmic radiation detectors to discover underground spaces. The detectors ...
A Hiroshima University team has designed a feasible way to detect the Unruh effect, where acceleration turns quantum vacuum ...
Using JWST, astronomers uncovered auroras, exotic clouds, and storms on a blazing rogue planet. Brilliant aurora-like ...
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What Is The Coldest Place In The Universe?
We all know space is cold, but some places are so extreme they make even Antarctica look comfortable. Scientists have […] ...
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How to Measure Nothing Better
Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...
NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) from Florida on ...
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