For the first time, scientists have shown that sound can travel through the emptiness of a vacuum. However, the rule-breaking trick requires specific circumstances and can only be carried out over ...

A classic movie was once promoted with the punchline: ”In space, no one can hear you scream”. Physicists Zhuoran Geng and Ilari Maasilta from the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyväskylä, ...

The line about how in space, no one can hear you scream. Is it actually true? There aren't traditional sound waves—vibrations in a medium like air—in a vacuum, so screaming is probably a waste of ...

Researchers have developed a new theory for observing a quantum vacuum that could lead to new insights into the behaviour of black holes. Researchers have developed a new theory for observing a ...

Figure 1: Layout of the experiment demonstrating the inelastic ponderomotive scattering of electrons at a high-intensity optical travelling wave in vacuum. The relativistic energy and momentum ...

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