Primordial black holes may trigger Type Ia supernovae without companion stars
The density color plot for WD models of various masses. The expected final composition after self-heating nuclear reactions…
Scientists use electrons to pattern light sources and wiring directly onto crystals
Cathodoluminescence hyperspectral mapping of a pattern spelling ‘Lee’ (top left); Hae Yeon Lee and Yifeng Liu (bottom left)…
Beauty meson decay confirms tension with Standard Model predictions
The LHCb experiment in its underground cavern. Credit: CERN A new LHCb analysis confirms a previously observed tension…
Physicists set record with 6,100-qubit array
This image shows 6,100 cesium atoms trapped by highly focused laser beams called optical tweezers. The width of…
Space-time doesn’t exist, but it’s a useful framework for understanding our reality
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Whether space-time exists should be neither controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions…
Spin may resolve century-old puzzle of light’s momentum in matter
by Adam B. Cahaya When light enters a medium like water or glass, it bends, raising the long-standing…
Collision between two bodies of similar mass may explain the formation of Mercury
a–d, The time intervals between snapshots are indicated in the top left corners and are not equispaced. The…
New tensor network-based approach could advance simulation of quantum many-body systems
A schematic diagram sketching the relations between the categorical structures that describe various aspects of the low-energy properties…
Solving the mystery of whether a Bolivian salt flat is the world’s largest natural mirror
Credit: Nature The largest salt flat in the world is Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, a popular tourist…
New relay architecture based on a quantum dot single-photon source enables secure communication across 300 km
Schematic of the five-node network architecture. The five-node quantum relay structure comprises two end-users (Alice and Bob), a…