Scientists transmit electricity wirelessly over five miles using a laser
Lasers are not only for cutting metal or scanning groceries. They can also carry usable electricity across open…
Monopole-mediated light control of half skyrmion topology in nematic liquid crystals
Creation of topological monopole-antimonopole pairs in half skyrmions Topological defects, which are a necessary result of broken continuous…
Moving Abrikosov vortex lattices generate sub-40-nm magnons
Fabrication of the microwave nano-antenna The fabrication of the experimental system began with the deposition of a 40/5 nm…
the breakthrough reshaping water science forever
To capture what was happening on the atomic level, the team employed ultrashort X-ray bursts from the European…
New Low-Cost, Efficient Single-Photon Source for Powering Future Quantum Internet
Insider Brief Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have developed a fiber-coupled single-photon source that generates single photons…
Ask Ethan: Is the Hubble tension the same thing as dark energy?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Laser-powered quantum radio works without electricity or antennas
A team of physicists at the University of Warsaw has built the world’s first all-optical radio receiver powered…
Scientists Reveal the Fluid Physics Behind Why Sighs Feel So Damn Good
The human body works in complex ways—sometimes, certain motions are so small that it’s easy to miss how…
Physicists rewrite 200-year-old principle to unlock atomic engines
A research team in Germany has achieved a stunning theoretical breakthrough that could reshape one of physics’ oldest…
What Happened to Those “Little Red Dots” Webb Observed?
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations, one of its earliest surveys was of galaxies that…
Optically-biased Rydberg microwave receiver enabled by hybrid nonlinear interferometry
Comparison between superhet and optical-bias MW detection setupsConventional Rydberg superhet Let us start by recalling the standard atomic…
COMSOL Multiphysics Improves Battery and Grid Designs
A prototyping problem is emerging in today’s efforts to electrify everything. What works as a lab-bench mockup breaks…