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Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles June 23, 2025
Every elementary particle falls into one of two categories. Collectivist bosons account for the forces that move us while individualist fermions keep our atoms from collapsing. The post Matter vs. Force: Why There Are Exactly Two Types of Particles first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Matt von Hippel
Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. June 13, 2025
A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are both interested and skeptical. The post Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
George Musser
First Map Made of a Solid’s Secret Quantum Geometry June 6, 2025
Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous. The post First Map Made of a Solid’s Secret Quantum Geometry first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Shalma Wegsman
Will We Ever Prove String Theory? May 29, 2025
Promise and controversy continues to surround string theory as a potential unified theory of everything. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Cumrun Vafa discusses his progress in trying to find good, testable models hidden among the ‘swampland’ of impossible universes. The post Will We Ever Prove String Theory? first appeared on Quanta […]
Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz
Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill May 27, 2025
Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix. The post Singularities in Space-Time Prove Hard to Kill first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Charlie Wood

4K From the Moon: Artemis II to Trial High-Speed Laser Communications June 29, 2025
NASA and Australia’s ANU are teaming up to push laser communications to the Moon, using a budget-friendly transceiver built from off-the-shelf parts. If successful on Artemis II, the tech could beam 4K video and rich data back to Earth at record speed, proving deep-space lasers are ready for prime time and reshaping how future crews […]
NASA
Scientists Discover Mysterious Earth-Like Patterns in Martian Soil June 29, 2025
Wave-like landforms on Mars provide clues about the planet’s icy history, its potential to support life, and the behavior of flowing granular materials. Although Mars has a dry, dusty surface and a thinner atmosphere, it may share more similarities with Earth than scientists once believed. In a new study, researchers at the University of Rochester, […]
Lindsey Valich, University of Rochester
Webb Captures First Direct Image of Alien Planet Carving Cosmic Rings June 29, 2025
The newfound planet represents Webb’s first direct image discovery of a planet. Nearly 6,000 worlds beyond our solar system have been found so far, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have just added another. The telescope picked up a faint glow from TWA 7 b, a planet about the mass of Saturn orbiting the […]
Space Telescope Science Institute
Scientists Uncover New Concerns About Billion-Dollar Heart Drug June 29, 2025
An investigation has uncovered evidence of significant misreporting, raising new concerns about the approval and long-term use of ticagrelor over the past decade. In a follow-up investigation into the multibillion-dollar drug ticagrelor, The BMJ has identified new concerns, this time focusing on key platelet studies that supported the drug’s approval by the FDA. For over […]
BMJ Group