Bizarre Things: Matter & Energy

November 27, 2025

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Physicists Prove the Universe Isn’t a Simulation After All

Nov. 10, 2025 New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understanding,” something no computation can ...

“Really Bizarre” Quantum Discovery Defies the Rules of Physics

Nov. 9, 2025 Researchers have discovered quantum oscillations inside an insulating material, overturning long-held assumptions. Their work at the National Magnetic Field Laboratory suggests that the effect originates in the material’s bulk rather than its ...

It Sounds Creepy, but These Scientific Breakthroughs Could Save Lives

Oct. 30, 2025 From mini-brains to spider-inspired gloves and wolf apple coatings, scientists are turning eerie-sounding experiments into real innovations that could revolutionize health and sustainability. Lab-grown brain organoids may replace animal testing, ...

Scientists Create LED Light That Kills Cancer Cells Without Harming Healthy Ones

Oct. 20, 2025 A new light-driven cancer therapy uses LEDs and tin nanoflakes to kill tumors safely and affordably. Developed by teams in Texas and Portugal, it eliminates up to 92% of skin cancer cells without ...

Scientists Create a Magnetic Lantern That Moves Like It’s Alive

Oct. 11, 2025 A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into multiple stable 3D shapes—including a lantern, a spinning top, and more—by compression or twisting. By adding a ...

Mysterious “Quantum Echo” in Superconductors Could Unlock New Tech

Sep. 27, 2025 Researchers have discovered an unusual "quantum echo" in superconducting materials, dubbed the Higgs echo. This phenomenon arises from the interplay between Higgs modes and quasiparticles, producing distinctive signals unlike conventional echoes. By ...

Sneezing from Cats or Dust? Safe UV Light May Neutralize Allergens in Minutes

Sep. 22, 2025 Sneezing from cats, dust mites, or mold may one day be preventable with a flip of a switch. Researchers at CU Boulder found that UV222 light can alter allergen proteins, reducing allergic reactions ...

The Shocking Reason Arctic Rivers Are Turning Rusty Orange

Sep. 22, 2025 Researchers found that ice can trigger stronger chemical reactions than liquid water, dissolving iron minerals in extreme cold. Freeze-thaw cycles amplify the effect, releasing iron into rivers and soils. With climate change accelerating these ...

Harvard’s Salt Trick Could Turn Billions of Tons of Hair Into Eco-friendly Materials

Sep. 17, 2025 Scientists at Harvard have discovered how salts like lithium bromide break down tough proteins such as keratin—not by attacking the proteins directly, but by altering the surrounding water ...

Scientists Found a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel

Aug. 26, 2025 A research team created a plant-inspired molecule that can store four charges using sunlight, a key step toward artificial photosynthesis. Unlike past attempts, it works with dimmer light, edging closer to real-world solar fuel ...

Scientists Discover Crystal That Breathes Oxygen Like Lungs

Aug. 22, 2025 Researchers developed a crystal that inhales and exhales oxygen like lungs. It stays stable under real-world conditions and can be reused many times, making it ideal for energy and electronic applications. This innovation could reshape technologies ...

Scientists Just Made Vibrations so Precise They Can Spot a Single Molecule

Aug. 16, 2025 Rice University scientists have discovered a way to make tiny vibrations, called phonons, interfere with each other more strongly than ever before. Using a special sandwich of silver, graphene, and silicon carbide, they created a record-breaking ...

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NASA's Webb Finds Life’s Building Blocks Frozen in a Galaxy Next Door

Nov. 12, 2025 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a young star in a neighboring galaxy — including the first-ever detection ...

Dark Energy Might Be Changing and So Is the Universe

Nov. 9, 2025 New supercomputer simulations hint that dark energy might be dynamic, not constant, subtly reshaping the Universe’s structure. The findings align with recent DESI observations, offering the ...

Einstein Might Have Been Wrong About Black Holes

Nov. 8, 2025 Researchers are using black hole shadows to challenge Einstein’s theory of relativity. With new simulations and future ultra-sharp telescope images, they may uncover signs that his famous equations ...

Scientists Just Changed the Nature of Matter With a Flash of Light

Oct. 24, 2025 Researchers in Konstanz discovered a way to manipulate materials with light by exciting magnon pairs, reshaping their magnetic “fingerprint.” This allows non-thermal control of magnetic states ...

Dark Matter Might Not Be Invisible After All. It Could Leave a Hidden Glow

Oct. 23, 2025 Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its existence. Using a network-like model of particle connections, they argue that ...

Einstein’s Overlooked Idea Could Explain How the Universe Really Began

Oct. 18, 2025 Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the driving force behind creation. Their simulations show that gravity and ...

Physicists Discover Mysterious New Type of Time Crystal

Oct. 15, 2025 Scientists at TU Wien have uncovered that quantum correlations can stabilize time crystals—structures that oscillate in time without an external driver. Contrary to previous assumptions, quantum ...

JWST May Have Found the Universe’s First Stars Powered by Dark Matter

Oct. 14, 2025 New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by ...

A Century-Old Piano Mystery Has Just Been Solved

Oct. 2, 2025 Scientists confirmed that pianists can alter timbre through touch, using advanced sensors to capture micro-movements that shape sound perception. The discovery bridges art and science, promising ...

The Accidental Discovery That Forged the Iron Age

Sep. 28, 2025 Ancient copper smelters may have accidentally set the stage for the Iron Age. At a 3,000-year-old workshop in Georgia, researchers discovered that metalworkers were using iron oxide not to smelt iron ...

Scientists Finally Capture Water’s Hidden State That’s Both Solid and Liquid

Sep. 22, 2025 Water, though familiar, still hides astonishing secrets. When squeezed into nanosized channels, it can enter a bizarre “premelting state” that is both solid and liquid at once. Using advanced NMR ...

Scientists Just Made the First Time Crystal You Can See

Sep. 7, 2025 Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created the first time crystal that humans can actually see, using liquid crystals that swirl into never-ending patterns when illuminated by ...

The Real Reason Ice Is Slippery, Revealed After 200 Years

Sep. 12, 2025 For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water. But new research from Saarland University reveals that this long-standing explanation is ...

Strange New Shapes May Rewrite the Laws of Physics

Aug. 18, 2025 By exploring positive geometry, mathematicians are revealing hidden shapes that may unify particle physics and cosmology, offering new ways to understand both collisions in accelerators and the ...

From Lead to Gold in a Flash at the Large Hadron Collider

Aug. 11, 2025 At the Large Hadron Collider, scientists from the University of Kansas achieved a fleeting form of modern-day alchemy — turning lead into gold for just a fraction of a second. Using ...

Scientists Just Recreated the Universe’s First Molecule and Solved a 13-Billion-Year-Old Puzzle

Aug. 3, 2025 Long before stars lit up the sky, the universe was a hot, dense place where simple chemistry quietly set the stage for everything to come. Scientists have now recreated the first molecule ever to ...

AI Cracks a Meteorite’s Secret: A Material That Defies Heat

Aug. 3, 2025 A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and quantum physics, researchers uncovered its bizarre ability to maintain ...

What Happens When Light Smashes Into Itself? Scientists Just Found out

Aug. 1, 2025 Physicists have discovered that when beams of light interact at the quantum level, they can generate ghost-like particles that briefly emerge from nothing and affect real matter. This rare ...

The Real-Life Kryptonite Found in Serbia—and Why It Could Power the Future

July 27, 2025 Deep in Serbia's Jadar Valley, scientists discovered a mineral with an uncanny resemblance to Superman's Kryptonite both in composition and name. Dubbed jadarite, this dull white crystal ...

Tiny Chip Could Unlock Gamma Ray Lasers, Cure Cancer, and Explore the Multiverse

Aug. 13, 2025 A groundbreaking quantum device small enough to fit in your hand could one day answer one of the biggest questions in science — whether the multiverse is real. This tiny chip can generate extreme ...

The Nuclear Clock That Could Finally Unmask Dark Matter

Aug. 9, 2025 Physicists are exploring thorium-229’s unique properties to create a nuclear clock so precise it could detect the faintest hints of dark matter. Recent measurement advances may allow scientists to ...

Forget 3D printing—DNA and Water Now Build Tiny Machines That Assemble Themselves

July 10, 2025 Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by ...

Hidden DNA-Sized Crystals in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite Water—and Life Itself

July 9, 2025 Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely disordered—is actually sprinkled with tiny crystals, changing our ...

They Glow Without Fusion—hidden Stars That May Finally Reveal Dark Matter

July 8, 2025 Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep within them. These “dark dwarfs” could exist in regions like the ...

Defying Physics: This Rare Crystal Cools Itself Using Pure Magnetism

July 6, 2025 Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself dramatically when placed in a magnetic field. Unlike a regular fridge, this ...

This Breakthrough Turns Old Tech Into Pure Gold — No Mercury, No Cyanide, Just Light and Salt

June 27, 2025 At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mounting piles of e-waste. By using a compound normally found in pool ...

Invisible Quantum Waves Forge Shape-Shifting Super-Materials in Real Time

June 19, 2025 Scientists have, for the first time, directly observed phonon wave dynamics within self-assembling nanomaterials unlocking the potential for customizable, reconfigurable metamaterials with ...

Heavy Particles, Big Secrets: What Happened Right After the Big Bang

June 17, 2025 Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists are finally getting a better handle on what happens next. A sweeping new ...

This Battery Self-Destructs: Biodegradable Power Inspired by 'Mission: Impossible'

June 7, 2025 Scientists at Binghamton University are bringing a sci-fi fantasy to life by developing tiny batteries that vanish after use inspired by Mission: Impossible. Led by Professor Seokheun Choi, the team ...

Scientists Freeze Quantum Motion Using Ultrafast Laser Trick

June 5, 2025 Harvard and PSI scientists have managed to freeze normally fleeting quantum states in time, creating a pathway to control them using pure electronic tricks and laser ...