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The animated series 'Stuart Fails to Save the Universe' has included a cameo appearance from a well-known DC hero, beating DC's own film slate to the punch. The crossover was reportedly made possible through connections tied to the upcoming HBO series 'Lanterns'.
Physicist John Wheeler proposed to Richard Feynman in a 1940 phone call that every electron and positron in existence could be a single particle tracing a tangled path back and forth through time. Sections of this path moving forward in time appear as electrons, while sections looping backward appear as positrons. Physicist E. C. G. Stueckelberg independently arrived at a similar concept around the same period.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope had largely concluded that mysterious compact objects called 'little red dots' were supermassive black holes obscured by dust. But two newly analyzed dots studied by teams led by de Graaff and Naidu show a distinctive Balmer break—a spectral signature usually associated with hot stellar surfaces—that standard black hole models don't produce, complicating the picture.
Samsung has started rolling out a Google Photos integration within its Gallery app, adding a new 'Sync photos and videos' option under settings that lets users automatically back up their photos and videos through Google's cloud service. The rollout follows Samsung's earlier confirmation that it was ending its OneDrive backup partnership with Microsoft in favor of a new deal with Google, and the feature is currently appearing for some users on Samsung Gallery version 15.9.01.7.
Joe and Anthony Russo, who previously helmed several Marvel blockbusters, are returning to direct 'Avengers: Doomsday.' The directors say their motivation to rejoin the Marvel Cinematic Universe stems from a fresh creative approach rather than simply reprising past formulas.
A small group of theoretical physicists is reviving the decades-old idea that universes might evolve much like living organisms, selecting for traits that allow them to reproduce through black holes. The concept gained fresh attention after a 2022 James Webb Space Telescope discovery and a widely shared Substack essay reignited debate over whether Darwinian logic can apply beyond biology. Supporters argue that just as natural selection explains complexity in life, a similar process could explain the physical constants and structure of our cosmos.
NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on 30 August aboard a SpaceX rocket, sending it roughly 1.5 million kilometres from Earth to begin observing the Universe. The telescope's 2.4-metre mirror, originally built for surveillance purposes and handed to NASA in 2012, was re-engineered for astronomy and paired with a 300-megapixel infrared camera capable of imaging patches of sky about 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope can capture in one shot.
An essay compares the universe to a massive, minified software file with no comments or source history, arguing that physicists effectively act as reverse engineers probing a running system they cannot inspect directly. It traces how Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein each uncovered hidden unifying rules beneath seemingly separate phenomena, and notes that quantum mechanics then complicated the picture by making particles behave differently depending on how they are observed.
CERN researchers and international collaborators generated quark-gluon plasma—the hot, dense matter thought to have existed microseconds after the Big Bang—by colliding oxygen-16 and neon-20 nuclei, elements far lighter than the lead atoms typically used for such experiments. The findings, published in Physical Review Letters, show this exotic state of matter can form in much smaller collisions than previously assumed.
NASA plans to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 30, a $4.3 billion observatory built from a spare satellite donated by the National Reconnaissance Office roughly 15 years ago. The telescope will search for Type 1A supernovas and study dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe's expansion, while also hunting for exoplanets.
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist celebrated for her polka-dot motifs and immersive infinity mirror rooms, has died at age 97. Curators and admirers have described her installations as evoking a profound sense of wonder, transporting viewers into contemplative, almost cosmic spaces.
NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a $4 billion observatory built to survey vast swaths of the cosmos with high speed and precision. The mission aims to capture wide-field images that reveal cosmic phenomena previously undetectable by existing instruments.