Space telescope detects ghostly particles, earning physics Nobel
An observatory buried under ice at the South Pole has won the Nobel Prize for detecting ghostly particles from the distant Universe.
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Francis Halzen Wins Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for leading IceCube Neutrino Observatory's detection of high-energy neutrinos from space.
Dark Matter Detector May Have Caught a Hint of the Elusive Stuff
A detector deep in a gold mine may have caught a hint of dark matter, though physicists warn it could merely be a statistical fluke.
Beneath Gran Sasso, a Detector Finds No Sign That Gravity Kills Quantum Superpositions
A detector buried beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountain found no signal showing gravity destroys quantum superpositions.
After a Decade in a Locked Envelope, Physicists Still Cannot Explain Gravity’s Secrets
A physicist seals a decade of work in an envelope, only to find gravity's constant still defies precise measure.
Tiny Flaws in Time’s Flow Have Been Detected by Scientists
Physicists claim a tiny glitch in time itself, a built-in uncertainty too small for our clocks to measure.
Quantum Wave Meets Free Fall: Atom Interferometer Finally Tests Einstein vs. Quantum Mechanics
A machine splits a single atom into two paths, one that falls, one held still, settling a century-old dispute between two famous ideas.
What Robert Langlands’ Wormhole Theory Actually Does For Mathematics
The Langlands program links number theory and wave analysis, and mathematicians still struggle to agree on what it truly means.