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Challenging the Big Bang: A Multi-Singularity Origin for the Universe

In a study published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Dr. Richard Lieu, a physics professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), which is a part of The University of Alabama System, suggests that the universe was formed on the steps of multiple singularities rather than the Big Bang alone to explain the universe’s expansion.

9 Apr 2025

UK Achieves First Long-Distance Quantum Data Transfer and Secured Video Call

Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge have successfully demonstrated the UK’s first long-distance ultra-secure data transfer over a quantum communications network, as well as the first long-distance quantum-secured video call.

9 Apr 2025

Chandra Data Unlocks Secrets of Andromeda's Black Hole

In a study published in The Astrophysics Journal, a Michigan State University researcher used the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope to detect X-rays originating from a black hole.

7 Apr 2025

Quantum Superpositions in Warmer Environments

Quantum states can only be created and observed under tightly controlled conditions. A research team from Innsbruck, Austria, has successfully created so-called hot Schrödinger cat states in a superconducting microwave resonator.

7 Apr 2025

New Method to Measure Spin Fluctuations Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing

Working at nanoscale dimensions, billionths of a meter in size, a team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory revealed a new way to measure high-speed fluctuations in magnetic materials.

3 Apr 2025

Researchers Develop New Design and Fabrication Method to Make Lightsails for Interstellar Travel

Since its launch in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled over 15 billion miles into deep space.

3 Apr 2025

James Webb Discovers Earliest Sign of the Universe Becoming Transparent

Born in fire, cooled by expansion, collapsed by clumpiness.

3 Apr 2025

In the Pinball World of Asteroids, A Mudball Meteorite Avoided Collisions

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, an international team of researchers describe the circumstances of the fall and show that mudball meteorites are not necessarily weak.

3 Apr 2025

A Step Towards Life on Mars? Lichens Survive Martian Simulation in New Study

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including exposure to ionizing radiation, while maintaining a metabolically active state.

3 Apr 2025