Raising the energy state of an atom's nucleus using a laser, or exciting it, would enable development of the most accurate atomic clocks ever to exist. This has been hard to do because electrons, ...

No political party on earth is as powerful, strong or wise as the Chinese Communist Party, according to its spokespeople. But there are cracks in the facade. Despite surging exports and tech ...

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Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, the force that keeps our feet on the ground and holds planets in orbit. The pursuit was more or ...

The time had come to open the envelope, but Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), wasn't sure he wanted to know the secret number that lay ...

Physicists have just dropped a new precise measurement for gravity. The newly published value for the strength of gravity, known as “G” or “Big G”, is significantly smaller than some previous ...

Scientists from Brazil are challenging the traditional view of universal constants, proposing that only one constant—time itself—is needed to measure relativistic spacetime. The research team argued ...

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Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

What is the meaning of life? Even the best of us couldn't hope to answer that question in a Universe Today article. But there are those who would try to "constrain" it, at least in terms of physics. A ...

The South Florida Bulls were left for dead not long ago. From 2011 through 2022, the program posted eight losing seasons and endured five years of three wins or fewer. Once seen as a potential power ...