Laser light can radically change the properties of solid materials, making them superconducting or magnetic within millionths of a billionth of a second. The intense light causes fundamental, immedia… [+3418 chars]
Myriam Prasow-Émond, an iREx student at the Université de Montréal, submitted her Master’s thesis in the Spring of 2022. She summarises the research projects she conducted as part of her Master’s deg… [+2949 chars]
Ten years ago this week, two international collaborations of groups of scientists, including a large contingent from Caltech, confirmed that they had found conclusive evidence for the Higgs boson, an… [+8928 chars]
Infographic: The Rise of Data Storytelling Humanity is creating more data than ever before, and more of that data is publicly accessible. While “data is the new oil” has almost become a cliché, the… [+6063 chars]
A close-up image of one of the new crystals taken using an electron microscope. (Image credit: Taskaev et al.) (opens in new tab)Researchers have discovered never-before-seen types of crystal hidden… [+4268 chars]
Researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) have discovered the fastest known star, which travels around a black hole in record time. The star, S4716, orb… [+2727 chars]
Physicists observed a strange new type of behavior in a magnetic material when it's heated up. The magnetic spins "freeze" into a static pattern when the temperature rises, a phenomenon that normally… [+3313 chars]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA's plan to lan… [+2791 chars]
Thirsty? Alcoholic Scientists say they've found alcohol molecules in space though, unfortunately, it's not the type that gets you drunk. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in… [+2203 chars]
A new telescope, made up of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, will track down sources of gravitational waves. The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), led by the… [+5214 chars]
This article is part of a series of pieces that Physics Magazine is publishing to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Higgs boson discovery. See also: Poem: Higgs Boson: The Cosmic Glyph; Research … [+7224 chars]
Rare, elliptical craters spotted on two of Saturn's moons reveal new clues about the satellites' age and formation, a new study shows. Using data from NASA's Cassini mission , researchers from the… [+3489 chars]
