Lens Flare and Modern Optical Physics
A bare, uncoated air-to-glass surface sends roughly 4 percent of the light striking it back the way it…
Woster: When a high school physics story sticks for life – Mitchell Republic
Back in high school, probably in a physics class although I can’t be certain, Howard Elrod told us…
AI predicts two new superconducting materials—and moves us closer to zero-loss energy
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Breakthrough Quantum Test Resolves a Major Cosmic Mystery
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that transcended realms, switched sexes, went south,…
Scientists Push Molecules on a Surface to the Ultimate Quantum Limit
Artistic representation of an optically excited molecule on a surface of a crystal. Credit: MPL, Alexey Shkarin An…
Chinese-German team builds ultra-sensitive ‘floating compass’ to hunt dark matter
Chinese researchers have developed a table-top magnetic sensor that operates at room temperature and can spot magnetic signals…
Graphene superconductivity switched off, proving electrons drive it
Researchers have completely switched off superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by weakening interactions between electrons, providing strong evidence that…
She was 18 when she questioned quantum computing’s big promise, Ewin Tang’s breakthrough changed how scientists see quantum advantage
Ewin Tang was only 18 when her research challenged a widely held belief about the power of quantum…
Brian Gaucher (ERVA): Why engineering, not physics, now limits quantum progress
Yuval Boger interviews Brian Gaucher, an experienced engineer and IBM veteran who co-chaired ERVA’s report Engineering Research to…
No escape from thermodynamic limits
HOW do you explain what Charles Dickens called “The best of times, and the worst of times?” We…
Physicists Determine Cause of “Runaway” Supermassive Black Hole
In September 2022, astronomers observed something very odd in a galaxy around 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. Extending…
Wild Experiment Reveals Quantum Objects Do Obey Gravity
Quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity explain how the Universe works at the tiniest and largest scales, respectively.…