Astronomers Uncover A Hidden Engine Near The Milky Way’s Black Hole
A long-standing mystery at the heart of our galaxy may finally have an answer. New findings published in…
One scientist’s 10-year quest to calculate the strength of gravity
After 10 years of painstaking measurements, physicist Stephan Schlamminger stood in a hotel water park, waiting for a…
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…
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…
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…
This “quantum” material fooled scientists and revealed something new
Magnetic materials believed to host a quantum spin liquid have drawn strong interest because of their potential to…
What a Post-Commercial Quantum World Could Look Like
Insider Brief A forthcoming industry analysis finds quantum computing is entering an early commercial phase defined by hybrid…