Get to the bottom of it
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Physicists have reported that they have finally observed helium 3 existing in a long-predicted type of superfluid, called the ß phase. This is an important discovery, if it's borne out, for reaso…
It's finally happening. As the world turns, as our little lives wear on, gravitational wave detectors quietly eavesdrop on secrets whispered by colliding blackholes and neutron stars in distant re…
An instrument onboard the ISRO Astrosat space-telescope has studied how X-rays being emitted by the Crab pulsar are being polarised, and how such polarisation varies from one pulse to the next. This i…
A post published on the Last Word On Nothing blog yesterday has been creating quite the stir on Twitter. Excerpt: Physics writers, this is how you nab the physics haters — human emotion. You can expl…
When the hype for the announcement of the previous GW detection was ramping up, I had a feeling LIGO was about to announce the detection of a neutron-star collision. It wasn't to be – but in my ex…
Astronomers who were measuring the length of one day on an exoplanet for the first time were in for a surprise: it was shorter than any planet's in the Solar System. Beta Pictoris b, orbiting the…