Rising quantum physicist Zhu Zijie leaves Europe after nearly a decade to join Fudan University
Zhu, 30, left the ETH Zurich in March to take up a role as associate professor and Xianghui…
CERN Timepix chips fly to the Moon
Six Timepix chips developed at CERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the…
Full space-time ultrafast self-focusing of spherical Airy wavepackets
Olarte, O. E., Andilla, J., Gualda, E. J. & Loza-Alvarez, P. Light-sheet microscopy: a tutorial. Adv. Opt. Photonics…
The flimsy case for evolving dark energy
There’s a legendary bit of wisdom that applies just as well to theoretical physics as it does to…
Fusion power unlikely to become competitive
Governments are committing substantial public funding to nuclear fusion power as a potential source of safe, dispatchable low-carbon…
A 200-year-old light trick just transformed quantum encryption
As digital communication accelerates and cyber threats continue to rise, researchers are working to develop more secure ways…
Exploding Primordial Black Holes Might Have Reshaped the Early Universe – And Created All Matter As We Know It
The early universe is absolutely so far outside our understanding of how the world works it’s hard to…
Scientists achieve major breakthrough in pursuit of nearly limitless energy device
A Japanese nuclear fusion startup is one step closer to creating a commercially viable fusion power generation system.…
Scientists were casually experimenting in the lab until a strange state of matter appeared that had been considered impossible for over 50 years
Science and energy generation are intrinsically linked. In recent years, we have made several astonishing scientific discoveries that…
Watch An Electro-Permanent Magnet In Action
Electro-permanent magnets (EPMs) are pretty nifty concepts, and if you aren’t familiar with them, they are permanent magnets…