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Known physics suggests the early universe should have produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts. Nearly all of it annihilated into radiation, but roughly one extra matter particle survived for every billion pairs—and why that tiny imbalance existed remains one of physics’ deepest unsolved problems.
2+ hour, 38+ min ago (906+ words) The measured net baryon-to-photon ratio is about 6.1 parts in ten billion. Physics can describe the required ingredients for that excess, but no confirmed mechanism made it....
Scientists Detect a Mysterious Signal That Could Be Dark Matter
14+ hour, 46+ min ago (509+ words) A mysterious signal deep underground may offer LUX-ZEPLIN its most intriguing clue to dark matter yet. For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to identify dark matter, the mysterious material believed to account for about 85% of all matter in…...
Physicists Just Turned The Entire Planet Into a Dark Matter Detector – And Strange Signals Kept Turning Up
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (218+ words) Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for dark matter....
beyond the last observer
7+ hour, 22+ min ago (443+ words) Something can happen without anyone witnessing it.. A star can collapse in a distant galaxy with no observer present, Its light can travel across the universe for billions of …...
Scientists Forced Water Into a Bizarre New State of Matter That May Explain Uranus and Neptune’s Strange Mgnetic Fields
10+ hour, 53+ min ago (575+ words) What happens to water when the usual rules no longer seem to apply? Scientists have recreated extraordinary conditions in the lab, uncovering a state of matter that could be hiding deep inside distant planets. Scientists have created a bizarre type…...
Scientists got diamond's melting point wrong by more than 1,000 degrees, crushing new laser experiment reveals
15+ hour, 8+ min ago (344+ words) Scientists blasted diamonds with lasers to get the best measurement of the mineral's melting point yet. The new, more accurate numbers could help improve fusion experiments and studies of giant planets. Scientists melted diamonds with a powerful laser to take…...
Beyond the Lab Coat: What It Truly Means to Live and Think Like a Scientist
11+ hour, 24+ min ago (262+ words) Pillar One: The Scientific Mindset Pillar Two: Embracing the Void The Alchemy of Not Knowing This requires emotional discipline rarely celebrated in popular descriptions of science. "I proposed this idea" must never become "I am this idea." A scientist, at…...
A New Design For A Plasma Engine Fuels On Only Thin Air
16+ hour, 58+ min ago (134+ words) Choosing what orbit to put a satellite in always comes with trade-offs. When it comes to Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), between 100-450 km, there are distinct advantages. Remote sensing cameras can take better pictures, comms and radar require less power,…...
A Faint Stellar Stream Outside the Milky Way Is Revealing Hidden Dark Matter — Curiosmos
17+ hour, 53+ min ago (516+ words) An ancient star cluster is slowly coming apart in a galaxy 115 million light-years away. The thin trail it left behind is giving astronomers a new way to study dark matter beyond the Milky Way. Astronomers have identified the first stellar…...