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Stephen Hawking wanted scientists to 'make black holes' on Earth. Physics says it's possible.
When Stephen Hawking and I visited the Large Hadron Collider, he hoped for an unexpected physics breakthrough. His dreams may not be impossible.
Mathematicians end decades-long quest to find elusive 'vampire einstein' shape
Researchers have discovered a new 14-sided shape called the Spectre that can be used to tile a surface without ever creating a repeating pattern, ending a decades' long mathematical hunt.
Why do magnets have north and south poles?
Spinning electrons may help explain why magnets have north and south poles.
Dark matter's secret identity could be hiding in distorted 'Einstein rings'
Researchers may be a step closer to identifying dark matter after studying unusual cases of gravitational lensing caused by "dark matter halos" surrounding distant galaxies.
World's heaviest Schrödinger's cat made in quantum crystal visible to the naked eye
Physicists have placed part of a sapphire crystal into a quantum superposition, making it the heaviest object to show quantum effects, in a new take on Erwin Schrödinger's famous cat experiment.
Oppenheimer: Everything we know about the atomic bomb creator's epic new biopic
Christopher Nolan’s next movie will study the man who developed the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Here’s the release date, plot, trailers & more.
Gravity can transform into light, mind-bending physics paper suggests
In the early universe, gravity may have been capable of creating light, a new theoretical paper finds.
Scientists create 'slits in time' in mind-bending physics experiment
Researchers replicated the classic double slit experiment using lasers, but their slits are in time not space.
