What happens if you keep stacking neutrons until gravity itself takes control? Neutrons, the silent stabilizers inside atomic nuclei, seem perfect for building matter since they don’t repel like ...

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A collaboration involving a Rutgers University-New Brunswick cosmologist, along with hundreds of other researchers and dozens of institutions, is exploring the nature of dark energy, a mysterious ...

Chaos, Quantum, and the Creator: The unseen Hand that governs all.

Scientists had theorized about the possibility of a plasma physics phenomenon, but their AI system discovered the real thing.

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.

More information: Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).

A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle at the same time, thanks to quantum physics' uncertainty principle.

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The explanation behind the universe’s matter-antimatter asymmetry—an apparent violation of a fundamental law of nature known as charge-parity-time (CPT) symmetry—is one of particle physics ...

MARTIN, Tenn. – Women are making great strides in fields relating to science, technology, engineering and math – the noted STEM fields – and DéJa Graves is taking her degree in chemistry from the ...