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The experiment showed Newton's law of gravity holds true even between tiny masses measuring just 90 milligrams.
Its source is a radio loud quasar blasting out jets when the universe was still in its infancy.
With a mass of 21 times that of the sun, the black hole of Cygnus X-1 challenges theories of stellar evolution.
A metal plate thought to have once belonged to Earhart's plane was probed for hidden secrets using neutron beams.
The highly radioactive metal is very challenging to work with.
Simple questions often lead to very rich topics.
This year is set to be an important one for astronomy, cosmology and physics as researchers across these fields seek to investigate deeper into the Universe and the physics that governs it than ever before.
The discovery of primordial black holes could answer a multitude of lingering questions such as the nature of dark matter, and how heavy elements are synthesised in addition to hiding entire bubble universes.
Despite the global pandemic that has brought much of the world to a grinding halt, space scientists have continued to push the boundaries of our knowledge throughout 2020.
Three words: open - the - windows.
The Arctic may be cold outside, but it's pretty hot beneath the surface.
We absolutely need this if we're to ever establish a colony on the Red Planet.
The billions of liters of fresh water were discovered with electrical surveys.
A secondary nuclear fusion process first proposed 30 years ago has now been confirmed by scientists in Italy.
A new method creates diamonds in the lab in just minutes and at room temperature.
As if Europa needed to get even cooler.
A new study highlights the importance of solar flares and space weather in reducing the habitability of exoplanets.
Astronomers have discovered a free-floating planet, not associated with any parent star wandering our galaxy.
This Halloween, you are invited to spend the evening in a haunted house with a difference. At ZME Manor the supernatural meets the scientific. Which will survive? And what will be left of it?
The risk is real, but not very large, researchers say.
NASA has announced that water is more common on the Moon than previously believed, with traces now discovered at its sunlit Lunar South Pole. This is an area that has been traditionally considered free of water.
The silk of this spider is unique. Its properties have now been analyzed in a new study.
The price that had to be paid was a pressure thousands of times higher than at the bottom of the Marianas trench.
A DNA-based self-assembling technique sheds light on processes essential for semiconductors and nanotech.
This could solve the mystery of tidal disruption events or ‘spaghettification.’
Could this be an everlasting battery?
It's celebration time in the world of physics -- and astrophysics takes the laurels again.
Astronomers have discovered a tremendous cosmic web in the early Universe. Trapped within its threads, six galaxies feeding gas to a central supermassive black hole.
It's all in the bubbles, as artizanal mezcal producers have known for centuries.
It's one of the holy grails of energy production, and these researchers believe it's perfectly feasible.
They may offer some protection to the wearer, but not to those around.
Does this mean we can get a tan on a comet?
Small-scale concentrations of dark matter produce lensing effects that are 10 times stronger than expected, a new study found.
A counterintuitive solution could make for better sensors.
Energy from matter was always easy, but the reverse has been difficult to achieve -- until now.
Researchers believe a controversial conquistador visited the Wichita site.
Vibrating liquids at certain frequencies can cause objects to exhibit anti-gravity effects.
Researchers used 'light cones' to draw boundaries and make AIs more human-like in predicting events in the future.
Researchers have programmed keratin sheets to always fold back to their designed shape -- not matter how complex.
The black hole is the first object of its kind with a mass above 100 solar masses but below a million solar masses to be discovered.
Spotting space debris during the day could help save satellites from costly collisions.
But they would be impossible to create with today's technology.
Now we're going places!
Researchers have found a creative way to monitor elephants, by using miniature computers to capture the steps of elephants through vibrations.
It's actually three flames in one, meeting in a fourth, unique structure.
The discovery of a calm galaxy so early in the Universe’s history calls into question our theories of how galaxies form.
If confirmed, this theory suggests that information is a physical state of matter.
A novel polymer coating turns the familiar red bricks into blue semiconductors.
Science -- because you can't prove there's magnetic pastry in space any other way.
