When Will The Sun Die?
All stars go through a life cycle: they form, they spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen in…
New quantum material switches superconductivity back on at 70 Tesla
Scientists in Austria have finally uncovered the reason why a strange uranium-based superconductor appears to come back to…
Physicists have found the first signs of an exotic η′-mesic nucleus, a state of matter that could help explain where mass really comes from
Why does anything have mass? It is why a basketball feels heavy, but it is also tied to…
Scientists created exotic forms of matter that shouldn’t exist
When a magnet is brought close to iron, the force between them stays predictable as long as nothing…
Newton’s Law of Gravity Just Passed Its Biggest Test Ever : ScienceAlert
The motion of galaxy clusters in the distant Universe has just yielded the largest-scale test yet of the…
Two-qubit logic and teleportation with mobile spin qubits in silicon
Bravyi, S. et al. High-threshold and low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory. Nature 627, 778–782 (2024). Article ADS CAS PubMed …
The World in an Hourglass: The Singing Physics of Sand
“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wildflower, Hold infinity in…
Elusive Quantum Material Turns Out to Be Something Even Stranger : ScienceAlert
For decades, scientists have been searching for quantum spin liquids (QSLs) – materials thought to possess several special…
Physicists discover quantum particles that break the rules of reality
Physicists have traditionally sorted all elementary particles in our three-dimensional universe into two categories: bosons and fermions. Bosons…
Fourier ptychography sharpens terahertz imaging
Imaging in the terahertz (THz) spectral range is a valuable screening tool. However, the quality of sources, detectors…
Quiz of the week: what device have physicists used to print ‘structural colours’? – Physics World
Quiz of the week: what device have physicists used to print ‘structural colours’? – Physics World Skip to…
How black holes become cosmic monsters: Scientists uncover the violent merger chain behind giant space objects |
The Universe keeps throwing up surprises, and black holes are right at the centre of it. The biggest…