Using The Big Bang As A Ruler Cosmologists use baryon acoustic oscillations to map distances as the universe expands
Baryon acoustic oscillations, an artifact remaining from the Big Bang, can be used by scientists to measure cosmological distances…
Infants Got Talent! Infants can perceive pitch in a melody better than most adults
According to the results of a study by researchers from the University of Washington, babies can perceive pitch better than adults, despite…
Have we finally found dark matter? The Fermi-LAT telescope experiment attempts to pinpoint the origin of an excess of gamma rays that might be a dark matter signal coming from the center of the Milky Way!
There is overwhelming evidence to support the existence of dark matter, but its existence is still a mystery to physicists. A method called…
Shoelaces are Tripping Up Physicists Scientists who study the physics of tangling explain how your shoelaces untie themselves
Scientists explain how your shoelaces randomly untie themselves while you're walking!
Why trains don’t fall off the track when turning Researcher derives the optimal angle for train wheels and reveals a new analysis that simplifies our understanding of trains
Trains have been the fundamental backbone of transportation and shipping for a few hundred years. Despite the ubiquity of trains, the…