Chinese astronomers have discovered that the warp in the Milky Way’s spiral disk is moving backwards under the influence of the enormous mass of dark matter that forms an invisible halo around our galaxy. About a third of all spiral galaxies have a distinct curvature in their disc-shaped structure, like a vinyl record that has … Read more
Stay up to date with free updates Simply sign up for the American inflation myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox. U.S. inflation eased to 2.6 percent in the year through May, according to the measure the Federal Reserve uses to set its target for price pressures, leaving the central bank on track for … Read more
A group of physicists were able to make a measurement of the Earth’s rotation using photons – the particles of light – and experienced a strange quantum phenomenon called entanglement. This allows them to increase the accuracy of the measurement a thousandfold, and it can be used to investigate questions in fundamental physics. You may … Read more