Signatures of hydrogen in spectrograms hint at places in the universe where new physics might lurk.
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The Muon Fails to Upend Physics as We Know It
The unusually large Muon has threatened the Standard Model for decades, but new data parks the particle inside the cozy confines of established physics.
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Astronomers find first emission spectra in brightest GRB of all time
Enlarge / A jet of particles moving at nearly light-speed emerges from a massive star in this artist’s concept of the BOAT. (credit: NASA’s Goddard
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Arsenic and old paint: Analyzing pigments in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch
Enlarge / Rembrandt’s The Night Watch underwent many chemical and mechanical alterations over the last 400 years. (credit: Public domain) Since 2019, researchers have been
Read moreArs Live recap: Pondering the complexities of time travel in the movies
Produced by Michael Toriello and Billy Keenly. During our second Ars Live event earlier this month, screenwriter/producer Ed Solomon (Bill & Ted franchise) joined physicists
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Physicists Just Created an Element Using a Particle Beam
The experiment paves the way to potentially making an entirely new one: element 120, also known as the “island of stability.”
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