The simulated Milky Way: 100 billion stars using 7 million CPU cores
image: Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution…
The Costs of Quantum Timekeeping
November 14, 2025• Physics 18, 182 Experiments reveal the surprisingly large amount of entropy—and thus heat—generated by a…
Dark matter acts surprisingly normal in a new cosmic test
Does dark matter behave according to the same physical rules that apply to ordinary matter? This question remains…
1,000 billion times the age of the universe: an atomic decay that defies imagination
In 2019, in a laboratory buried under an Italian mountain, an extraordinarily rare event was picked up by…
Christopher Ward C1 Bel Canto Lumière: When Luminescence Meets Acoustic Engineering
When a watch chimes on the hour, the sound should resonate with purpose. When it glows in the…
448-qubit milestone puts fault-tolerant quantum computing within reach
Researchers at Harvard, publishing in the journal Nature on Monday, have demonstrated a new quantum system that can…
Neural networks discover unstable singularities in fluid systems – Physics World
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After I burned out, physics helped me understand what had happened to me – and to move on | Zahaan Bharmal
If the words “force equals mass times acceleration” are mildly triggering, I apologise. Newton’s second law of motion…
An Explanation For The JWST’s Puzzling Early Galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope didn’t need much time to show us how wrong we were about the…
Physicists Discover Our Solar System May Be Breaking the Cosmic Speed Limit
Credit: Unsplash/Greg Rakozy. Our solar system is speeding through space much faster than previously thought, challenging the fundamental…
Decoupling structural molecular dynamics from excited state lifetimes using few-femtosecond ultraviolet resonant dispersive waves
It can be seen from the transient analysis presented in Fig. 3 that two exponential decay pathways play a…
Measurement of optically induced broken time-reversal symmetry in atomically thin crystals
TH Faraday rotation in monolayer WS2 First, we study the non-centrosymmetric WS2 monolayer. The excitation of TMD monolayers…