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Scientists May Have Just Solved Physics’ Holy Grail Problem
May 7, 2025
Scientists have potentially solved what many consider physics’ most challenging problem – reconciling Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, without adding any new parameters to physics.
A Star 30,000 Light-Years Away May Have Forged The Gold In Your Jewelry
April 30, 2025
The gold in your wedding ring may have come from a star’s explosive death. For decades, scientists have hunted for the factories that produce the universe’s heaviest elements, and now they’ve found an unexpected one: magnetar giant flares, cosmic explosions that release more energy in a millisecond than our Sun does in 100,000 years.
First Image From Upgraded Solar Telescope Shows Sun Like Never Before
April 25, 2025
After years of development, researchers at the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii have fired up their newest tool, the Visible Tunable Filter (VTF), and captured its first images of our sun.
Carbon ‘Buried’ in Martian Rocks May Explain How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere
April 21, 2025
Mars once breathed carbon in and out just like Earth does today. NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered evidence that the Red Planet had its own version of Earth’s carbon cycle.
Milky Way Twin Discovered in the Infant Universe — But It Shouldn’t Even Exist
April 18, 2025
Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
