Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is a concept that has long captivated both the scientific community and science fiction enthusiasts. In a cosmos where light speed is viewed as the ultimate velocity ...

Everyone recognises Albert Einstein, but few realise just how deeply his ideas have shaped the world we live in. Over a hundred years ago, this German-born scientist turned the way we understand space ...

In 1971, Stephen Hawking theorized that a black hole's event horizon can never shrink. Recently, LIGO confirmed this by ...

In March, D-Wave announced it performed a materials simulation using quantum technology. A few weeks later, Quantinuum published a paper in Nature detailing how it used the company’s six-qubit ...

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Sand made from recycled glass can be mixed with sediment to make a medium for plants to grow in. That can help with coastal restoration projects.

On January 14, 2025, a gravitational wave dubbed GW250114 reached Earth. Like its predecessor, GW150914, it came from a pair ...

A new specimen holder gives scientists more control over ultra-cold temperatures, enabling the study of how materials acquire ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

A recently discovered black hole merger is proving correct theoretical predictions made by Albert Einstein and Stephen ...

The winners this year are photographers Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, and Chuhong Yu with a fantastic, fiery view of the core of ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...