by quasarn01 | Aug 18, 2026 | Astronomy
Readers of a certain age will remember a golden era of asteroid films, capped by two with very different endings. “Deep Impact” drove home the devastating consequences of letting a large piece of rock hit our planet, whereas “Armageddon,”...
by quasarn01 | Aug 18, 2026 | Latest in Physics
Quantum sensors, devices that collect measurements by exploiting quantum-mechanical phenomena, could potentially detect extremely weak magnetic, gravitational and electromagnetic signals with greater sensitivity than classical sensors. Some quantum sensors leverage...
by quasarn01 | Aug 17, 2026 | Astronomy
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way in the earliest phases of its evolution....
by quasarn01 | Aug 17, 2026 | Latest in Physics
From helping doctors detect cancer to guiding self-driving cars through traffic, many modern imaging systems rely on near-infrared light, producing a crisp picture when visible light would scatter and yield a blurry picture. But near-infrared systems struggle when...
by quasarn01 | Aug 17, 2026 | Latest in Physics
What is heat, and what is useful work if a machine consists only of an atom and light particles? In modern quantum technologies, this kind of question connects thermodynamics with quantum physics. Researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have developed a...
