Physics

Part of the preparation to create medium density amorphous ice. Credit: Christoph Salzmann Researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of ice that looks more like liquid water than any other known ice, and may rewrite our understanding of water and its many anomalies. The newly discovered ice is … Read more

What initially looked like a Dickinsonia fossil (left) decomposed and began to peel off the rock in a few short years (right), a sign that it was something more recent. Credit: Gregory Retalak/Joe Mert In 2020, amidst the first lockdowns of the pandemic, a science conference scheduled for India never happened. But a group of … Read more

In 1931, A.A His name is the Belgian cosmologist Georges Lemaitre The astronomer was shocked. Perhaps, he said in a provocative paper, our utterly colossal cosmic vastness may have begun as a very small singular point about 14 billion years ago. However, he continued, the blob may have exploded, eventually spilling over into a huge … Read more

Human population sizes can be predicted by methods from physics. Credit: Complex Science Complex Just by knowing the average number of friends each person has, scientists at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) have been able to predict the group sizes of people in a computer game. For this purpose, they modeled the formation of social … Read more

In 1931, A.A His name is the Belgian cosmologist Georges Lemaitre The astronomer was shocked. Perhaps, he said in a provocative paper, our cosmic cosmic vastness might have started entirely as a very small singular point about 14 billion years ago. However, he continued, the blob may have exploded, eventually spilling over into a huge … Read more

Physicists have proposed a new explanation for dark energy. It can shed insights into the interdependence between quantum field theory and general relativity theory, as two perspectives of the universe and its elements. What is behind dark energy – and what links it to the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein? Two physicists from the … Read more

Observations indicate that the intergalactic gas in our universe is slightly hotter than it should be. Recently, a team of astrophysicists used sophisticated computer simulations to propose a radical solution: an exotic form of dark matter known as “dark matter”. photons“It could be heating up the place. These strange particles will be carriers of a … Read more