In a dim German laboratory in 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen’s accidental discovery of X-rays cracked open a new era in medicine, ...

Five years ago, on April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope — a matrix of radio observatories situated around the world that turn the Earth into one giant radio telescope — captured something ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a revolutionary way to look inside an atom’s ...

The results add to physicists’ understanding of neutrinos and validate collaboration between major experiments.

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Hunting spacetime fluctuations could unite Einstein and quantum physics By Michael Irving December 05, 2023 An artistic impression of an experiment investigating whether spacetime follows classical or ...

uses images of dune surfaces to estimate the force acting on each grain of sand. By combining laboratory experiments, ...

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it—an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter. Now, researchers at the ...