A key question was the origin of the logarithmic scaling of the greenhouse effect—the 2-to-5-degree temperature rise that models predict will happen for every doubling of CO2. One theory held …
In the last scene of Avengers: Infinity War , before Thanos snaps his finger, Wanda tries to stop him by killing Vision herself before he gets the Mind Stone, but …
But there may be opportunities to indirectly spot the signatures of those gravitons. One strategy Vafa and his collaborators are pursuing draws on large-scale cosmological surveys that chart the distribution …
A team of astrophysicists and quantum physicists has achieved a breakthrough in understanding the enigmatic phenomena known as neutron star “glitches”, reported Space.com. These peculiar events, where the spins of …
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. To catch a glimpse of the subatomic world’s unimaginably fleet-footed particles, you need to produce unimaginably brief flashes of light. …