This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If ...

This branch of physics is hard at work trying to decode ... Poplawski says we should be able to see an echo of the spin inherited from our “parent” black hole in surveys of galaxies, with ...

In the beginning was the bubble: Inflating ... an electromagnetic “echo” from near the time of the Big Bang. Though inflation has its critics, it remains the leading theory of how our universe ...

When a bubble pops in a liquid ... produced and fixed in place by an ultrasound wave in a liquid, collapse and make particles of light, or photons. Physicists have known about this process ...

Matteo Bucci, an associate professor at MIT, highlights that understanding boiling physics could drive breakthroughs ... nucleation site density, average bubble size, and the product of average ...

Emmanuelle Rio, François Boulogne, Marina Pasquet, and Frédéric Restagno from the Laboratory of Solid State Physics at the University ... that plays a role in bubble bursting.