Optical control of orbital magnetism in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
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An old theorem explains the polarization and entanglement of light
Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper…
China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks a long-standing fusion limit
China has moved one step closer to clean fusion energy by breaking a long-standing rule in plasma physics.…
Mysterious ‘Cloud-9’ May Be The Dark-Matter Bones of a Failed Galaxy : ScienceAlert
An object spotted in deep space is the strongest candidate yet for a galaxy arrested during early development.…
China Unveils “Artificial Sun”, Breaking Fusion Limit With First-Ever Stable High Density
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has achieved a long-theorized state in nuclear fusion called a “density-free regime,”…
First Ever Radio System With Three Active Supermassive Black Holes Discovered
Galaxies might be separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years at the very least, but they do occasionally…
A Baffling Paradox Led Physicists to the Discovery of Particles of Light That Can Exist in 37 Different Dimensions
Physicists have demonstrated a bizarre paradox that offers new insights into a unique aspect of quantum mechanics, potentially…
Ultramassive Black Holes and Their Galaxies: A Matter of Scale
Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and…
A metastable tetragonal phase in two-dimensional halide perovskite lattices driven by a coherent Higgs mode
Dhanabalan, B. et al. Directional anisotropy of the vibrational modes in 2D-layered perovskites. ACS Nano 14, 4689–4697 (2020).…
Physicists found hidden order in violent proton collisions
High energy proton collisions can be pictured as a roiling sea of quarks and gluons, including short lived…
First Ever Measurement Of Mass And Distance Of A Rare Free-Floating, Saturn-Sized “Rogue” Planet
The galaxy is expected to be home to billions of free-floating, or “rogue”, planets that have no stellar…
‘It would be a fundamental breakthrough’: Mysterious dark matter may interact with cosmic ‘ghost particles’
New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic “ghost particles” called neutrinos. If…