Physicists recreate forgotten experiment observing fusion
Richard Crane, Arthur Ruhlig’s thesis advisor, with the University of Michigan accelerator used for experiments. Credit: Los Alamos…
Ancient canoe replica tests Paleolithic migration theory
The team set out in their handmade canoe, making the entire experience as authentic as possible. Credit: 2025…
Smart amplifier cuts power consumption, paving way for more qubits and less decoherence
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a highly efficient amplifier that activates only when…
Tiny collider experiment determines three electrons are enough for strong interactions between particles
Partitioning of an electron droplet. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09139-z Three electrons are enough to trigger strong interactions…
Computational trick enables better understanding of exotic state of matter
Schematic illustration of the experimental setup. A beryllium capsule (yellow) is compressed, heated and probed by an X-ray…
The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites, and how we may have finally found some
Mercury seen by Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft on the left. On the right, there’s an approximation of Mercury’s true…
Problem-solving AI approach tackles inverse problems used in nuclear physics and beyond
This illustration represents a ring-all-reduce setup of a computing cluster’s graphics processing units, used to solve an inverse…
A magnetically levitated particle enables researchers to search for ultralight dark matter
Schematic of the experimental setup inside the dilution refrigerator. Shown are the plates of the cryostat, the multistage…
Astronomer models radio pulsar nulling fractions
Histogram showing the best-fit normalized distribution of the nulling fractions based on simulation of 5000 sample pulsars. Credit:…
More pathways than previously thought can lead to optical topological insulators
Light conducts around the edge of a simulated topological insulator, shown at the bottom of image. The topological…