Tidal forces heat white dwarfs to unexpected temperatures in tight binary orbits
Impression of the 6.9 minute double white dwarf binary J1539+5027, composed of a tidally heated white dwarf (yellow)…
Compact laser-plasma accelerator can generate muons on demand for imaging
Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) detected and characterized directional muons. Credit: https://pxhere.com/es/photo/788784?utm_content=shareClip&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pxhere Muon beams can now be created…
Anomalous metal sheds light on ‘impossible’ state between superconductivity and insulation
(a) Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a reference device, taken before depositing the global top gate. The square…
Scaling Quantum Computing – Brownstone Research
Managing Editor’s Note: Quantum Week has arrived… This week at The Bleeding Edge, Jeff will be locked in…
China gears up to build giant South China Sea lab in hunt for ghost particles
Chinese researchers have tested a submersible vehicle designed to help them build one of the world’s largest neutrino…
Scientists Have A New Model For The Big Bang Theory That Changes Everything
Gremlin/Getty Images For decades, scientists have relied on…
When Black Holes Don’t Play by the Rules
Black holes are the remains of dead supermassive stars. When a star reaches the end of its life,…
Ultrafast topological control | Nature Physics
Mohsin, I. et al. Nature 626, 505–511 (2024). Article ADS Google Scholar Hefei, Z. et al. Nat. Phys.…
Gravity vs magnetism: Star-forming interaction revealed
This image, taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, shows a portion of molecular cloud NGC 6334, popularly known…
Levitation Breakthrough: Scientists Create Levitating Disk That Requires No External Power
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) scientists have achieved a levitation breakthrough by creating a virtually frictionless,…
New Simulator Pushes Classical Limits on Quantum Algorithm Testing
Insider Brief Researchers from INSAIT, ETH Zurich, and the University of Oxford developed qblaze, a quantum circuit simulator…
JWST may have found the Universe’s first stars powered by dark matter
In the early universe, a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the first stars emerged from…