# Physics - ARGO.net Science

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## Published Stories

- [Seven-dimensional geometry may solve Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox](https://www.argo.net/seven-dimensional-geometry-may-solve-stephen-hawkings-black-hole-paradox/index.html.md): 2026-07-18 - A study in General Relativity and Gravitation proposes that a seven-dimensional form of spacetime geometry could leave black holes with tiny stable remnants, giving quantum information a place...
- [NASA’s ANITA balloon recorded two strange radio bursts rising from beneath Antarctic ice in 2006 and 2014, as if an ultrahigh-energy particle had crossed about 6,000 kilometers of Earth and after nearly two decades of investigation and a major neutrino test, physicists still cannot identify the cause, leaving unusual ice effects and unknown particles among the possibilities](https://www.argo.net/nasas-anita-balloon-recorded-two-strange-radio-bursts-rising-from-beneath-antarctic-ice-in-2006-and-2014-as-if-an-ultrahigh-energy-particle-had-crossed-about-6000-kilometers-of-earth-and-after-nea/index.html.md): 2026-07-13 - Researchers with the Pierre Auger Collaboration have used 15 years of observations to investigate two mysterious radio signals recorded above Antarctica. According to a Penn State announcement, the...
- [Scientists find a cleaner way to measure gravitational waves in a shifting universe](https://www.argo.net/scientists-find-a-cleaner-way-to-measure-gravitational-waves-in-a-shifting-universe/index.html.md): 2026-07-12 - A study in Physical Review Letters has introduced a detector-based way to define gravitational waves in an expanding universe, giving researchers a clearer route from cosmic theory to...
- [Europe’s first TES spectrometer can catch X-ray signals scientists used to miss](https://www.argo.net/europes-first-tes-spectrometer-can-catch-x-ray-signals-scientists-used-to-miss/index.html.md): 2026-07-10 - A new study in Review of Scientific Instruments describes Europe's first synchrotron-based TES spectrometer, now operating at BESSY II in Berlin. The instrument gives scientists a far more...
- [Quantum amplification can depend only on two points, new geometry study shows](https://www.argo.net/quantum-amplification-can-depend-only-on-two-points-new-geometry-study-shows/index.html.md): 2026-07-08 - A study in Physical Review Research has identified when amplification in certain quantum-like systems can be predicted from only the starting point and ending point of a slow...
- [Neutron stars become dark matter traps in new FAST telescope search](https://www.argo.net/neutron-stars-become-dark-matter-traps-in-new-fast-telescope-search/index.html.md): 2026-07-05 - Researchers using China's FAST telescope have searched two nearby neutron stars for one of physics' most elusive suspects, axion dark matter. The study turned the magnetic environments around...
- [CERN is shutting down the world’s largest particle smasher to supercharge the hunt for dark matter](https://www.argo.net/cern-is-shutting-down-the-worlds-largest-particle-smasher-to-supercharge-the-hunt-for-dark-matter/index.html.md): 2026-07-05 - CERN has brought the Large Hadron Collider's latest physics run to a close, according to an official CERN announcement, as the world's most powerful particle accelerator prepares for...
- [Scientists detect a hidden gravitational-wave signal at a black hole’s edge](https://www.argo.net/scientists-detect-a-hidden-gravitational-wave-signal-at-a-black-holes-edge/index.html.md): 2026-07-04 - A study in Nature has reported observational evidence of a hidden gravitational-wave component in GW250114, the loudest binary black hole merger detected so far. By pulling out this...
- [Researchers find evidence that liquid water switches between two hidden structures](https://www.argo.net/researchers-find-evidence-that-liquid-water-switches-between-two-hidden-structures/index.html.md): 2026-06-28 - A study in Nature Physics has found molecular-level evidence that liquid water can shift between two local structures, giving scientists a fresh clue to one of chemistry's oldest...
- [NASA’s upgraded space station lab is creating a strange fifth state of matter](https://www.argo.net/nasas-upgraded-space-station-lab-is-creating-a-strange-fifth-state-of-matter/index.html.md): 2026-06-28 - NASA's official Cold Atom Lab announcement points to one of the strangest laboratories ever flown in orbit. A compact quantum physics facility aboard the International Space Station is...
- [Physicists Built a Tiny Quantum Universe Where Time Emerges Without a Clock](https://www.argo.net/physicists-built-a-tiny-quantum-universe-where-time-emerges-without-a-clock/index.html.md): 2026-06-19 - A study in Physical Review Research reports that 24,000 ultracold atoms can behave like a tiny laboratory universe in which events are ordered from inside the system. The...
- [Oxford Physicists Create a Stranger Schrödinger’s Cat From Exotic Quantum Building Blocks](https://www.argo.net/oxford-physicists-create-a-stranger-schrodingers-cat-from-exotic-quantum-building-blocks/index.html.md): 2026-06-17 - Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrated a new family of Schrödinger's cat-like quantum states, opening a stranger corner of quantum physics where superpositions are built from...
- [Quasi-1D Quantum Material Lets Electric Gates Control Charge Waves Far Beyond Standard Limits](https://www.argo.net/quasi-1d-quantum-material-lets-electric-gates-control-charge-waves-far-beyond-standard-limits/index.html.md): 2026-06-17 - Researchers at UCLA and UC Riverside have shown that a quasi-one-dimensional quantum material can amplify electrical control over charge waves by 10 to 100 times more than standard...
- [Rare Nuclear Decay Seen for the First Time Could Help Explain How Gold Forms in Space](https://www.argo.net/rare-nuclear-decay-seen-for-the-first-time-could-help-explain-how-gold-forms-in-space/index.html.md): 2026-06-15 - A study in Physical Review Letters reports three linked discoveries from a rare nuclear decay that may sharpen scientists' picture of how the universe forges heavy elements such...
