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When Gravity Goes Random: A New Take on Quantum Gravity
Jonathan Oppenheim's postquantum gravity theory gives spacetime itself a random element. It may solve the century-old unification problem, and could even explain dark...
Inside the Planck Era: When Physics Runs Out of Answers
At the universe's first moment, the Planck era, both general relativity and quantum mechanics break down. Here is what physicists believe happened.
The Triangles Hidden Inside Every Triangle
In this captivating YouTube video, we uncover the hidden gem of the curious mathematics of triangles, as recreational mathematician Lee Sallows unveils a...
Voyager 1 Light Day: NASA's 15-Billion-Mile Computer Repair
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory fixed a corrupted memory chip aboard Voyager 1 from 15 billion miles away, restoring science data after...
Dunkleosteus Was Half the Size We Thought – and Prototaxites Is Stranger Still
New research on Prototaxites suggests it belongs to an entirely unknown lineage of life.
The Ring That Shouldn't Exist
Large scale structure in the universe keeps breaking the rules. The Big Ring, a 1.3-billion-light-year formation, is one of seven structures that challenge...
A Radio Signal Pulses Every 22 Minutes. No One Knows Why.
Since 1988, GPM J1839-10 has pulsed radio waves every 22 minutes. It sits past the death line. Astronomers are still debating what it...
Dyson Swarm Could Harvest the Sun in 31 Years
Dyson swarm math shows dismantling Mercury and using exponential self-replication could capture the Sun's total energy output in just 31 years.
Graphene Finally Works as a Semiconductor, Twenty Years Late
Graphene semiconductor breakthrough at Georgia Tech delivers 10x silicon's electron mobility with a usable band gap. Here is what it means for computing...
How Magnets Work: Four Quantum Requirements
The Stern-Gerlach experiment proved electrons are tiny magnets. But permanent magnets need four quantum phenomena: electron spin, half-filled energy levels, ferromagnetic crystals, and...
