By making use of the “creepy” laws behind quantum entanglement, physicists believe they have found a way to make information jump between a pair of electrons separated by distance. Teleportation of ground states between photons, massless light particles, is fast becoming old news, a trick we are still learning to …
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Shark Bay Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Western Australia have an unusual way of obtaining food. They divide the fish into a large empty marine gastropod shell. They then bring the shell and the captured fish to the surface, and shake it upside down. Sip! go to the fish, straight to …
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Every second, billions upon billions of incredibly low-mass subatomic particles called neutrinos shoot out of the Sun and glide undetected through your body. These neutrinos are produced by the two known types of fusion reactions that occur on our Sun, and so far scientists have only detected one group of …
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A 50-year theoretical process to extract energy from a spinning black hole finally has experimental verification. Using an analogue of the required components, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism for extracting some of that rotational energy, if we could ever develop the means. That …
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In August last year, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations made a gravitational wave detection, the first of its kind, in what appeared to be a black hole swallowing a neutron star. Now LIGO has confirmed the event, giving it the name of GW190814. And it appears that the neutron star …
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