Plasma Turbulence Is Doing Surprising Things Inside Fusion Reactors
The interiors of fusion reactors can get seriously chaotic. But for obvious reasons—like extreme temperatures and pressures—researchers aren’t…
Norbert Holtkamp appointed director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Editor’s note: This press release was originally published by the University of Chicago. Norbert Holtkamp has been appointed…
Hidden dimensions could explain where mass comes from
The geometry of space itself may play a far more central role in physics than previously thought. Instead…
Astronomers watched a sleeping neutron star roar back to life
When gas falls onto a compact object, such as a neutron star or black hole, due to its…
Brightest-ever lensed supernova reveals astronomy’s coming revolution
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Qubits break long-held quantum limit by evolving in superposed time paths
For decades, physicists believed that even the strangest quantum objects had a hard limit on how strongly their…
Legendary Nobel Prize winning physicist explains why super smart people make dumb decisions
The man feeding the paper was Joe Eszterhas, the brash, polarizing screenwriter behind Flashdance and Jagged Edge. Eszterhas…
New quantum antenna reveals a hidden terahertz world
A research team from the Faculty of Physics and the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies at the Centre…
Scientists crack the atomic code behind single-photon quantum emitters
Imagine a light switch so small it is made from just a few atoms, and so precise it…
A New Window on the Expansion of the Universe
The universe is getting bigger, and there’s a problem. Two different ways of measuring its expansion rate give…