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Breakthrough Prize program awards $25 million to a dream team of researchers

A program that’s richer than the Nobels rewarded more than a dozen researchers tonight with Breakthrough Prize awards amounting to $25.4… Read More

LIGO goes back to the gravity-wave grind

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory is back on the hunt for ripples in spacetime, months after reporting the first signature of… Read More

UW’s David Thouless wins share of Nobel physics prize for weird science of superconductors

David Thouless, a British-born professor emeritus at the University of Washington, has been awarded half of this year’s Nobel physics… Read More

Quantum study sparks questions about why time runs forward and not backward

Why do we remember the past, but not the future? It seems like a silly question, but for some scientists, it’s… Read More

By Deutsch: Ute Kraus, Physikdidaktik Ute Kraus, Universität Hildesheim, Tempolimit Lichtgeschwindigkeit, (Milchstraßenpanorama im Hintergrund: Axel Mellinger) English: Ute Kraus, Physics education group Kraus, Universität Hildesheim, Space Time Travel, (background image of the milky way: Axel Mellinger) [CC BY-SA 2.0 de (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/de/deed.en) or CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

Maybe black holes (and wormholes) aren’t as monstrous as we thought

Black holes may have gotten a bad rap. And wormholes just might be a realistic way to travel Star Trek-style… Read More

Gravitational-wave detection earns LIGO scientists a $3 million Breakthrough Prize

This year’s revelations about gravitational waves are certain to win someone a Nobel Prize someday, but an even richer prize… Read More

Gravitational waves spark a loving LIGO parody from A Capella’s Tim Blais

Tim Blais, the singing scientist behind “Bohemian Gravity,” “Rolling in the Higgs” and “The Surface of Light,” is back with another… Read More

SuperKEKB collider gets closer to addressing antimatter mystery in Japan

What happened to all the antimatter? A particle-smasher in Japan is well on its way to addressing that question and others… Read More

As big as the Higgs: Stephen Hawking says gravitational waves could revolutionize astronomy

British physicist Stephen Hawking says the detection of gravitational waves provides a completely new way of looking at the universe,… Read More

Hanford’s scientists finally spill gravitational-wave secrets – but they still can’t tell all

HANFORD, Wash. – Physicists here had to keep mum for nearly five months about the gravitational-wave breakthrough they helped make, but… Read More

Gravitational waves found! LIGO experiment watches two black holes smash together

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than a decade of looking, scientists say they’ve detected the gravitational waves given off when two… Read More

Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest

It looks as if scientists have chosen Thursday as the day to announce a potentially Nobel Prize-winning discovery: the first… Read More

After gravitation-wave rumors, it’s getting close to go time for Advanced LIGO results

The scientists behind the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory are getting ready to reveal their latest findings, amid a flurry… Read More

EMC2 revives its quest for nuclear fusion

After languishing in limbo for most of the last year, EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. says it’s back in business with… Read More

LHC photon readings hint at Higgs boson’s big brother, but it’s too early to tell

The Higgs boson is the biggest find of the century in particle physics, but for the past few weeks, physicists at… Read More

Holometer finds no evidence we’re living in a Matrix-like hologram … so far

Is our universe a two-dimensional hologram? It sounds like science fiction straight from “The Matrix,” but scientists are checking out… Read More

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider hits 1-PeV milestone with heavy ions (and re-ignites doomsday talk)

The Large Hadron Collider set another record for particle-smashing energy levels this week – which set off another round of hyped-up rumblings… Read More