France Fires the Most Powerful Laser on Earth — So Intense It Replicates the Big Bang
Tucked away in a lab near Paris, scientists at the Apollon facility have quietly secured a world record:…
New Method Proposed To Detect Universe’s Mysterious “Phantom Heat” Predicted by Einstein
A team in Japan has proposed a clever method to finally detect the mysterious Unruh effect, a predicted…
A 250-Year-Old Theory Learns New Tricks
Physicists have derived a quantum version of Bayes’ rule, revealing how beliefs and probabilities update in the quantum…
Scientists Discover Ordinary Ice Has Extraordinary Electrical Properties
Researchers have discovered that ice can generate electricity when bent or deformed, offering new insight into both nature…
Bilayer Graphene Slides into Action
September 16, 2025• Physics 18, s116 Sliding one layer of bilayer graphene over the other provides a powerful…
Physicists Propose a ‘Neutrino Laser’ Straight Out of Science Fiction : ScienceAlert
MIT physicists have proposed a way to make a super sci-fi-sounding device: a neutrino ‘laser,’ which could help…
Strange signals at absolute zero hint at dark matter’s secrets
A new experiment called QROCODILE, led by the University of Zurich and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has…
Experiments Refute Dark Matter Claim
September 17, 2025• Physics 18, s117 Two direct-detection experiments see no evidence of a signal reported by their…
Dust-shrouded quasars reveal secrets of early universe
Astronomers have discovered a hidden population of quasars – supermassive black holes blazing from the universe’s childhood –…
What are the ‘magic numbers’ in nuclear physics, and why are they so powerful?
Some atoms are stable, while others seem to fall apart. Lead-208 will probably last forever, while the synthetic…
Unprecedented ‘Einstein Cross’ Reveals Fifth Ghost Image and a Dark Matter Surprise
When gravity—an invisible yet ubiquitous force—bends and distorts light from distant galaxies, Earthbound observers get a rare glimpse…
Physicists just found a way to make “something from nothing”
In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs…