Blue whirl that consumes all fuel it encounters is three flames in one
By Layal Liverpool The blue whirl flameSriram Hariharan (University of Maryland) We may be one…
Physics
Why dark matter should be called something else
There are many things that we don’t understand about dark matter, but whether it is…
Ordinary bricks laced with conductive fibres can store energy
By Leah Crane Bricks that can power an LEDThe D’Arcy Laboratory in Washington University in…
Physicists have a massive problem as Higgs boson refuses to misbehave
By Leah Crane The CMS experiment at CERN is studying the Higgs bosonMax Brice/CERN Physicists…
We just figured out why shaving soft hair blunts steel razor blades
By Leah Crane Now we know why razor blades get dull so rapidlySujata Jana /…
Beirut explosion: What caused the blast and what else do we know?
By Michael Le Page An aerial view shows the massive damage done to Beirut’s portAFP…
Half of Nobel prizes in science go to just five research fields
By Adam Vaughan Nobel prizes go to scientists in a narrow range of fieldsKay Nietfeld…
The End of Everything review: A rollicking tour of the wildest physics
There are many ways that the universe could come to an end. Katie Mack’s book…
Black holes are hiding movies of the universe in their glowing rings
A faint fuzzy glow around the first black hole image last year baffled astronomers. Now…
Watch a beam of light bounce off mirrors in ultra-slow motion
By Leah Crane We have seen the light – as it flies through the air…