Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...
Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a chip-scale device that can dynamically control the "handedness" of light as it passes ...
More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...
Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...
New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most brilliant supernova explosions ...
Zodiacal light, for example, makes you wait – and once it’s arrived, you still have to work for it. The zodiacal band is even ...