Colibre: A New Cosmic Simulation With Cinematic Flair
We can’t really understand the Universe without knowing its history. Since galaxies are among the Universe’s defining features,…
Muon Magnetic Moment Matches Model, Making Major Malaise
Sometimes, a major discovery is exactly what you were hoping not to find. That’s the case with a…
This Universe Map Took 5 Years to Build, and It’s Already Challenging Einstein
Scientists using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument have finished a five-year sky survey, producing a cosmic map that…
Long-Standing Muon Mystery May Be Settled
A new high-precision calculation of a key component underpinning the magnetic moment of the muon, a heavier cousin…
Sam Altman Returns to the Spotlight as Hollywood and Tech Collide at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony
The growing overlap between Hollywood and Silicon Valley was on full display Saturday night at the 2026 Breakthrough…
Australia: Physicist bends light with gravity, improves remote sensing
Enbang Li, a senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong’s School of Physics, has developed a simple yet…
The strange connection between falling balls and quantum weirdness
A ball tossed into the air follows a path that classical physics can track with confidence. Shrink that…
Cavity-mediated exciton hopping in a dielectrically engineered polariton system
Our approach, illustrated schematically in Fig. 1a, is based on a van der Waals heterostack with a monolayer of…
Transport of polaritons in hyperbolic media
Basov, D. N., Fogler, M. M. & García de Abajo, F. J. Polaritons in van der Waals materials.…
For the first time ever, scientists create particles out of empty space
The universe looks like it is mostly empty space. Remove the stars, planets, dust, and gas, and what…