In a major achievement, physicists have produced a 2D supersolid in the lab for the first time. That may sound incredibly mind-bendy, but it’s a feat researchers have been working towards for more than 50 years. Supersolids are strange materials with atoms arranged in the ordered structure of a solid, yet they can flow without…
Month: September 2021
Traversable wormholes are possible under certain gravity conditions
The thing of science fiction…interstellar travel via wormholes. Rosa is attempting to virtually “build” a stable, traversable wormhole, one that can be safely crossed without the theoretical passageway collapsing or trapping its occupant. And he has recently found that it is indeed possible, but only if we tweak our understanding of gravity. For more, check…
‘Radio colors’ from mysterious deep-space flashes reveal lone stellar corpse as source
Mysterious repeating pulses of radio waves may come from a hitherto unknown kind of extraordinarily powerful cosmic magnet. Instead, what may best explain the pattern of mysterious colors from FRB 20180916B’s fast radio bursts is a magnetar, a rare type of neutron star that are the strongest magnets in the cosmos. Specifically, they suggest that…