Heat waves aren't just getting worse on land, the majority of the world's oceans are experiencing record-breaking ...

A team of physicists recently used a string-theory technique to reveal that we're on the cusp of detecting phase transitions in the early universe through their gravitational wave signature.

More information: Raphael Dahan et al. Resonant phase-matching between a light wave and a free-electron wavefunction, Nature Physics (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-01042-w.

The phase transition in the early universe, however, was quite remarkable, triggering gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime that are most commonly caused by collisions between massive bodies ...