Browsing: Lens_matter

The romance is back, argues a NASA adviser and best-selling science-fiction author.

How we broke the world record in high-temperature superconductors.

The pressure it takes to break everything from raindrops to stars.

Exotic ultra-compressed matter can look like pasta, among other things.

Black Beauty: The supermassive black hole at the center of this galaxy, around 11 million light years away toward the constellation Centaurus, is currently classified as a quasar. It is roughly 55 million times more massive than our Sun. Its collimated jets, in blue, surpass the diameter of the entire galaxy, extending up to 13,000 […]

If our particles have no identity, how can we?

A 21-year-old named Boyan Slat says he can solve one of the greatest ecological disasters of our age: the build-up of vast amounts of plastic in our oceans. The young Dutchman, often photographed in a t-shirt and shorts, says he’s designed a structure that will harvest and recycle much of that waste. Made from a […]

The psychological power of narrative.

If life off Earth exists it has probably transitioned to machine intelligence.

The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn.