UBC Scientists have mimicked the elusive Schwinger effect using superfluid helium, showing how vortex pairs can emerge from ...

Distance scales from the Planck length to a 93-billion-light-year observable universe expose extreme limits of physics and hint at unknown phenomena where current laws break down.

The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, ...

According to Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese research team utilized data from the “Huairou-1” satellite to observe a special gamma-ray burst and found that it may be driven by a newly formed magnetar ...

New simulations show that neutrino flavor transformations change both the composition and the signals left behind after neutron star collisions. When two neutron stars collide and merge, the result is ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

Microscopic turbulence in plasma can trigger macroscopic structural changes. In complex physical systems, such cross-scale ...

A Chinese research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in the study of gamma-ray bursts. A joint research team ...

Deep underneath a granite hill in southern China, an enormous detector is sniffing out the secrets of the universe.

A cosmic spectacle predicted by Stephen Hawking may be on the horizon as scientists warn of a black hole poised to explode.

Awareness is the fire of life, synonymous with the inseparable source from which life has its wellspring. Awareness preceded the formation of the Earth and the evolution of the brain, and it is to ...