Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum Test
A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
Weakly interacting spinons and tightly bound triplons in the frustrated quantum spin-Peierls chain
Tsui, D. C., Stormer, H. L. & Gossard, A. C. Two-dimensional magnetotransport in the extreme quantum limit. Phys.…
Overmassive black holes and little red dots naturally form in simulations
Our cosmological initial conditions are based on the simulation Phi-4096 of ref. 51. In this work, a dark-matter-only N-body…
Taking a Quantum Leap, Again
Published September 16, 2026 This is a summary of a story on Pratt School of Engineering. The National…
Einstein’s theory of gravity could be shaken by a cold beam of atoms
Researchers at the Swiss institutes of ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen have produced an…
What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?
Meanwhile, on the theory side, things have been in a bit of flux. As we’ve added ever more…
‘Chronic and worsening’ shortage of physics teachers revealed
At the same time, “Retaining, Recruiting, and Retraining Physics Teachers for Scotland’s Future” reports that recruitment to Initial…
The Physics That Curves a Ping-Pong Ball Just Showed Up in Quantum Light
Putting spin on a ping-pong ball changes its trajectory – a similar effect also occurs in the quantum…
A flat fusion magnet built in a New Jersey shop hit 6 tesla at 424 degrees below zero, and the startup behind it wants 300 identical copies to do the job Germany’s stellarator does with 50 twisted coils in five shapes
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Thea Energy just proved that a flat, round magnet built in New Jersey can hit 6 tesla…
Mysterious Gamma Rays Reveal Hidden Magnetism Inside Atomic Nuclei
New results from an experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams answer a fundamental question about the…
Researchers Turned “Empty Space” Into a Tool for Superconductivity
Schematic of vacuum-fluctuation-enhanced superconductivity. Credit: USTC Researchers used a specially designed cavity to strengthen quantum vacuum fluctuations and…
CERN recreates cosmic ray collisions to reveal what happens when space particles hit Earth
Physicists at CERN have directly measured proton-oxygen collisions at 9.62 TeV per nucleon pair, closely recreating an important…