Electron Sensing on Picosecond Timescales
August 7, 2025• Physics 18, s98 An electron on a ballistic trajectory can be detected with trillionth-of-a-second timing…
Anatoli Bugorski: The Man Who Put His Head In A Particle Accelerator And Survived
There’s nothing particle physicists like more than crashing particles together and seeing what comes out of the mess.…
Researchers overcome long-standing bottleneck in single photon detection with twisted 2D materials
Homogeneity of the devices. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adu5329 The ability to detect single photons (the smallest energy…
The Universe’s First Stars Unveiled in Turbulent Simulations
Understanding the early Universe is a foundational goal in space science. We’re driven to understand Nature and how…
Giant seas are just the ocean’s ‘bad day’
A size comparison of the “Draupner Wave” to 3 school buses stacked horizontally on top of one another.…
Direct visualization of quantum zero-point motion in complex molecule reveals eternal dance of atoms
Ultrashort, high-intensity X-ray laser pulses trigger controlled explosions of molecules—making it possible to capture high-resolution images of molecular…
Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy harbors what may be the most massive black hole ever detected
Another image of the Cosmic Horseshoe, but with the pair of images of a second background source highlighted.…
Fast optical control of a coherent hole spin in a microcavity
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A ‘mysterious giant’ behind binary black holes? Astronomers uncover first evidence of a third compact object
Gravitational wave events released by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. Credit: SHAO The binary black holes in the universe are…
Frustrated electron hopping from the orbital configuration in a two-dimensional lattice
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