Palm-sized magnet joins world’s most powerful coils for first time
Researchers at ETH Zürich have built the most powerful miniature superconducting magnets ever demonstrated, potentially opening the door…
MIT scientists finally see hidden quantum “jiggling” inside superconductors
The kind of light used to examine a material can reveal very different details. Visible light shows what’s…
Static electricity is a big mystery — a jolt of fresh research could help to solve it
Static electricity is so commonplace that it can come across as simple. Rub a balloon against your head,…
Bistable superlattice switching in a quantum spin Hall insulator
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Magnetic resonance control of spin-correlated radical pair dynamics in vivo
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CERN Adds a New Particle to Large Hadron Collider’s Subatomic Zoo
The Large Hadron Collider’s subatomic discoveries didn’t stop with the Higgs boson: This week, scientists at Europe’s CERN…
Why Scientists Are Calling This Laser Experiment a Historic First
For decades, scientists studying laser-assisted electron scattering, a technique known as LAES, have relied exclusively on linearly polarized…
Astronomers Witness Monster Black Hole Firing Cosmic Bullets Into Galaxy!
The XRISM spacecraft has captured the dramatic awakening of a supermassive black hole, IRAS 05189-2524, as it fires…
This May Be the World’s First Quantum Battery
According to physicist Paul Davies, a tried-and-true “quantum” device exploits the odd rules of quantum mechanics to deliver…
Single-shot, reference-less computational wavefront sensing for complex optical fields
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CERN Discovers New Particle After Upgrading Large Hadron Collider : ScienceAlert
The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world’s most…
A strange twist in the universe’s oldest light may be bigger than we thought
Researchers investigating a mysterious cosmic phenomenon called cosmic birefringence have created a new approach to reduce uncertainty in…