CERN Begins Dismantling LHC Components as High-Luminosity Upgrade Era Starts
CERN is swapping the collider's strongest magnets for units 40% more powerful, setting up a decade of precision Higgs physics.
Sep 26, 20260 views
Physics
Underground experiment rules out gravity as the force that kills Schrödinger's cat
A 62-day search beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountain found no trace of radiation predicted by the Diósi–Penrose model of gravity-driven quantum collapse.
Sep 21, 20261 views
Physicists Build Exotic-Atom Beam to Put Einstein's Gravity to the Test
From muonium beams to falling quantum objects and black-hole 'ringing', researchers are probing whether general relativity holds at the smallest scales
Sep 18, 20261 views
Largest-ever survey of physicists finds no consensus on how the Universe works
A global poll of thousands of physicists reveals deep disagreement over cosmology and quantum gravity, even as new experiments sharpen the Hubble tension and challenge the simulation hypothesis.
Sep 13, 20261 views
Atom Interferometer Brings Einstein's Equivalence Principle Into the Quantum Realm
A Ben-Gurion University-led team, including Roger Penrose, has measured how free fall shifts an atom's quantum phase.
Sep 11, 20261 views
Mysterious Signals in the Dark Matter Hunt: From a South Dakota Mine to the Cosmic Dawn
Recent experiments—from the LZ detector's underground lab to Earth's magnetosphere—report puzzling signals that could be dark matter, while a cosmic hum hints at dark stars from 13 billion years ago.
Sep 6, 20262 views
Mysterious Signal in South Dakota Gold Mine Sparks Dark Matter Hopes
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected an unexplained event that could be a dark matter particle—but scientists caution that more data is needed to rule out background noise.
Sep 4, 20261 views
MIT Physicists Watch Electrons Assemble Into Coexisting Phases—and Stir Vortex-like Whirlpools
Advanced imaging reveals two distinct mechanisms of electronic phase formation and confirms hydrodynamic electron flow, deepening our understanding of superconductivity and magnetism.
Aug 20, 20261 views
Gluon Junction Discovery Rewrites Proton Structure and Stability
New RHIC and CERN data reveal a Y-shaped gluon network inside protons, challenging decades-old textbook models and deepening our understanding of matter's stability.
Aug 16, 20261 views
NASA's IXPE Observes Vacuum Birefringence Around Magnetar, Confirming 90-Year-Old Theory
First-of-its-kind X-ray polarization measurements of magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 validate quantum electrodynamics and challenge pulsar emission models.
Aug 6, 20261 views
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