A plasma ejection during a solar flare. (Courtesy: NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams) The centre of the Sun is incredibly hot, at 15 million degrees Celsius. Its surface is much cooler, ...
Physicists have taken a step that sounds like science fiction: they have coaxed light into behaving as a “supersolid,” a ...
When a laser experiment fails to produce the expected flash of light, most researchers would assume something went wrong with the hardware. In this case, the missing signal turned out to be the most ...
Results from KATRIN and MicroBooNE strongly disfavour a light sterile-neutrino explanation of longstanding anomalies.
A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.