Science & Technology

American scientist Karl Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that gave scientists a way to control nerve cells using light. The three scientists received the prize for their work on light-gated ion channels and optogenetics, a…
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The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. In my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable string of characters: AdS/CFT. Thoroughly intimidated, I…
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Elon Musk recently unveiled a flying car that looks like something straight out of a science fiction movie, yet it is becoming a reality right before our eyes. The new Tesla model can not only fly, but is also capable of performing spectacular aerial stunts, leaping over obstacles, and even driving upside down. One of the most…
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You’ve probably heard this one before. Scientists asked themselves what would occur if one builds a time machine, decides to go back in time, and kill his grandfather. What occurs then? Would one cease to exist, meaning he never builds the time machine and goes back in time – creating an impossible loop? This is the grandfather…
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What a person sees can increasingly be reconstructed from their brain activity. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute for Science in Israel have developed Brain-IT, an AI model that can generate images from fMRI scans of the brain that are astonishingly close to the actual subject being viewed. The institute itself refers to this as a new…
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A recent survey shows researchers remain divided on fundamental concepts Many of the world’s greatest scientists remain in startling disagreement with one another about the nature of reality itself. After conducting what is likely the largest survey of its kind, researchers reported that a vast majority of physicists believe the big…
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Researchers have created quantum control techniques that can make a system appear to run backward in time. By precisely managing quantum measurements, they can reshape the system's arrow of time and even harvest energy from the measurement process itself. The breakthrough could lead to more powerful quantum computers, quantum batteries,…
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Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet yet, a Jupiter-size world less than 1 million years old that orbits a star about 450 light-years from Earth, according to a study published Sept. 16 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The planet, designated Elias 2-24 b, remains surrounded by the gas and dust from which it formed,…
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A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: Space and time can form a kind of “crystal” that may turn into a black hole. The results are described in Physical Review Letters. Alongside the famous gigantic black holes, physics also allows for microscopic versions. They emerge from so-called…
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Somehow, while the rest of the ancient Egyptian world has crumbled around it, the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza remains standing, even after 4,600 years. Even through major earthquakes and the gradual loss of its gleaming white casing stones, the main structure of the pyramid endures, its granite and limestone blocks still firmly in…
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