Ask Ethan: How dark will the Universe become?
When it comes to the Universe and everything in it, only one thing is absolutely certain: everything that’s…
Most Energetic Ghost Particle Ever Seen May Have Come From Black Hole Jets : ScienceAlert
Imagine catching a single raindrop and realising it fell from a storm on the other side of the…
Magnetic field-induced momentum-dependent symmetry breaking in a kagome superconductor
Syozi, I. Statistics of kagome lattice. Prog. Theor. Phys. 6, 306–308 (1951). Article ADS MathSciNet Google Scholar Balents,…
Twist-induced orbital chirality in a photonic laser
The combination of two achiral photonic membranes into a twisted bilayer breaks mirror symmetry and induces non-Hermitian coupling…
Universal dynamics and microwave control of programmable resonant electro-optic frequency combs
Li, J., Yi, X., Lee, H., Diddams, S. A. & Vahala, K. J. Electro-optical frequency division and stable…
Mapping The Sound Field Of An Acoustic Levitator
Sound! It’s a thing you hear, moreso than something you see with your eyes. And yet, it is…
The Most Energetic Ghost Particle Ever Seen
Imagine catching a single raindrop and realising it fell from a storm on the other side of the…
Scientists use ‘negative light’ to send secret messages hidden inside heat
Researchers have developed a technology to invisibly transmit information disguised as background thermal radiation. Using a phenomenon called…
The Early Universe was Hot, Dense, and Soupy
In its earliest moments, the Universe was hot and dense. A plasma sea of quarks and gluons out…
Quantum entanglement as a tool to image distant astronomical objects
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 11 March 2026 Particles entangled over long distances can, in theory, improve the sensitivity of long-baseline…
Quantum spin study reveals a previously unknown state of matter
At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or spins,…
The 19th-century mathematical clue that led to quantum mechanics
Yet Hamilton’s reputation during his lifetime was built on work he completed much earlier. In the 1820s and…