- By Tudor Vieru
- November 6th, 2013
NIST Creates Atomic Clock That Uses Cold Rubidium Atoms
Only hot atoms were ever used in such devices before
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 1st, 2013
Graphene “Sandwich” Exposes Only Thin Line of Single Atoms
2D insulators can now be used to cover up graphene sheets
- By Tudor Vieru
- October 31st, 2013
New Dark Matter Detector Fails to Uncover Signs of WIMPs
The particles remain elusive to the world's most powerful detector
- By Lucian Parfeni
- September 19th, 2013
There's No Methane-Producing Life on Mars, Curiosity Concludes
NASA scientists have been unable to find any trace of methane in the Martian atmosphere
- By Lucian Parfeni
- September 18th, 2013
Google Doodle Recreates Foucault's Famous Panthéon Pendulum Experiment in Real Time
The experiment was used to determine the rotation of the Earth on its axis
- By Laura Sinpetru
- September 16th, 2013
Researchers Figure Out How Buckyballs Form
Investigations show these molecules form when larger structures break down
- By Lucian Parfeni
- August 20th, 2013
The Big Bang Wasn't Big and It Wasn't a Bang Either, MinutePhysics Explains – Video
MinutePhysics tackles "Science, Religion and the Big Bang"
- By Lucian Parfeni
- August 15th, 2013
Radical New Theory Suggests Universe Is Not Expanding but Gaining Mass
The new theory explains the redshift effect through mass gain rather than expansion
- By Lucian Parfeni
- August 12th, 2013
"Impossible Material" with Extraordinary Absorbing Ability Created by Mistake
An experiment was left running for too long, leading to the discovery
- By Lucian Parfeni
- June 18th, 2013
Physicists Discover Strange New Particle, Possibly a New Form of Matter
Scientists believe they may have stumbled onto the first quad-quark particle
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 14th, 2013
LHC Scientists Now Sure They Found the Higgs Boson, Just Not Sure Which One
CERN scientists have announced that they believe the particle they discovered is the Higgs
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 7th, 2013
Quantum Entanglement Travels at Least 10,000 Faster than Light
The inferior limit doesn't mean the speed can't be infinite
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 7th, 2013
Disappointingly, the Higgs Boson Looks Exactly Like It Was Supposed to Look Like
Scientists haven't called it yet, but the particle they found is likely the Higgs boson
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 6th, 2013
Black Holes and the Firewall Paradox That Has Baffled Physicists
Solving the famous black hole information paradox only led to yet another paradox
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 6th, 2013
Physicists Provide Solution to the Black Hole Firewall Paradox that Has Puzzled the Greatest Minds
This enables information to escape black holes while also respecting quantum mechanics
- By Lucian Parfeni
- February 20th, 2013
If the Higgs Boson Exists, the Universe Is Doomed
If the current data about the Higgs boson is correct, the universe is in an unstable state
- By Sebastian Pop
- February 11th, 2013
Ultra Ever Dry, Nanotech Coating That Makes Getting Wet Impossible
An infomercial that has a significant level of credibility