Quantum disorder powers self-sustaining microwave signal in diamond
Quantum particles can work together to produce powerful signals. However, those signals are unstable and usually vanish almost…
Scientists Made a Quantum Leap and Entered a New Kind of Matter, and It Lasted Two Seconds
First proposed in the 1920s by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein, the concept of a BEC predicted…
China achieves new milestone in ‘artificial sun’ experiment
Researchers working on China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) say they have managed to operate the reactor beyond…
How to explain the universe — for beginners
ILLUSTRATION BY PHIL HACKETT Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who is currently working with the Spanish…
Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Quantum mechanics controls reality on the smallest levels, but when scaled up, it’s often difficult to gauge how…
Fusion Ignition Breakthrough: Energy Researchers Report Tokamak Experiments That Exceed Mysterious ‘Plasma Density Limit’
In a potential new milestone for fusion energy research, researchers in China report achieving a state once only…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down
The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long…
New Research Reveals how Gravitational Waves Could be Used to Decode Dark Matter
The discovery of Gravitational Waves (GWs) in 2015 confirmed a prediction made by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity…
High-efficiency broadband active metasurfaces via reversible metal electrodeposition
Pendry, J. B., Schurig, D. & Smith, D. R. Controlling electromagnetic fields. Science 312, 1780–1782 (2006). Article ADS …
Scientists Produced a Particle of Light That Simultaneously Accessed 37 Different Dimensions
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A Massive Underground Sphere Is Trying to Catch the Universe’s Ghosts—and Reveal New Physics
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is on the…
This Starless Monster Black Hole May Be Older Than the First Galaxies
A recent study published on arXiv has revealed a black hole so massive and so ancient that it…