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Topic: Physics

The Universe Observing Itself (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How reality is shaped by our observation

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A spectrum is projected onto a human eye (Getty Images/LWA)

Why color may not objectively exist

Carlyn Zwarenstein
DNA double helix among the stars (Getty Images/PASIEKA)

Scientists detect “DNA of the universe”

Matthew Rozsa
A person looks at Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" during a press preview for Van Gogh's Cypresses at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York on May 15, 2023. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Van Gogh's brilliant fluid dynamics

Matthew Rozsa
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Moon (Getty Images/MASTER)

New Moon research illuminates its past

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter's moon Europa in front of the planet Jupiter (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Planets' striking gravitational dance

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Multiverse, bubbles, concept (Getty Images/VICTOR DE SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Can we escape this dismal reality?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
CASPAR, a small particle accelerator located nearly a mile underground at SURF, can recreate the conditions inside stars, including the first stars in the universe. (Matt Kapust / Sanford Underground Research Facility)

The poetry of a particle accelerator

Rae Hodge
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This photo taken on Nov. 7, 2023 shows a researcher from Shanghai Jiao Tong University debugging experimental facilities at the Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments DURF in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xu Bingjie/Xinhua via Getty Images)

New dark matter lab is world's largest

Rae Hodge
Gravitation waves, 3D illustration (Getty Images/andreusK)

Hunting for sources of gravitational hum

Nicole Karlis
Black hole, dark matter, periodic table of elements (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dark matter's invisible perioidic table

Rae Hodge
Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). (ESO/L. Calçada)

These bright blue stars form threesomes

Matthew Rozsa
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Woman gliding through the web on a skateboard (Getty Images/We Are)

Do we live in a computer simulation?

Melvin M. Vopson - The Conversation
Image of an atomic structure consisting of protons, neutrons and electrons (Getty Images/Oselote)

What is an attosecond?

Aaron W. Harrison - The Conversation
Spinning Galaxy (Getty Images/cokada)

Singing the ancient hymn of the Big Bang

Rae Hodge
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector assembly is pictured in a tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), during maintenance works on February 6, 2020 in Cessy, France, near Geneva. (VALENTIN FLAURAUD/AFP via Getty Images)

LHC finds neutrinos

Matthew Rozsa
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This artist’s impression shows the pulsar PSR J1023+0038 stealing gas from its companion star. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Dead star burps cosmic cannonballs

Elizabeth Hlavinka
(Getty/George Clerk)

A memoir in praise of complex science

Mark Harris - Undark
Niels Bohr (1885-1862), Danish physicist. Noble Prize winner, 1922, seated at his desk (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Oppenheimer's hero was also problematic

Matthew Rozsa
Flat square glass with blue violet green gradient. (wacomka via Getty Images)

Why glass still surprises scientists

John Mauro, Katelyn Kirchner - The Conversation
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Futuristic Nuclear Fusion Particles Simulation concept (iStock/Getty Images)

Fusion ignition explained

Carolyn Kuranz - The Conversation
Atom illustration (Getty Images/KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

How to find rare forms of matter

Sean Liddick, Artemis Spyrou - The Conversation
An XMM-Newton Mosaic of the Galactic Supernova Remnant HESS J1731-347 (Image courtesy of Victor Doroshenko, Gerd Pühlhofer and ESA / XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

Is this the first "strange star"?

Troy Farah
UFO landing in the forest meadow (Getty Images/gremlin)

A physicist debunks the Ukraine UFOs

Avi Loeb
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