Scientists solve the mystery of ‘impossible’ merger of ‘forbidden’ black holes
Scientists have gotten to the bottom of the mystery of an “impossible” merger between black holes that was…
Field-tunable valley coupling in a dodecagonal semiconductor quasicrystal
Shechtman, D., Blech, I., Gratias, D. & Cahn, J. W. Metallic phase with long-range orientational order and no…
Measurement of correlated charge noise in superconducting qubits at an underground facility
Controlling the radiation environment of superconducting qubits The qubit chip was relocated from the Earth’s surface at Madison,…
Photoinduced twist and untwist of moiré superlattices
Cao, Y. et al. Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 80–84 (2018). Article …
Joint reduced model for the laminar and chaotic attractors in plane Couette flow | Journal of Fluid Mechanics
1. Introduction Certain shear flows, such as pipe flow (Avila, Barkley & Hof Reference Avila, Barkley and Hof2023) and…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
Exotic ‘time crystals’ could be used as memory in quantum computers, promising research finds
Time crystals could help create quantum computing data storage that lasts minutes, new research shows — a huge…
scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture…
New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities
They started by re-proving Hardt and Simon’s decades-old result in eight dimensions, this time using a different method…
On-site enhancement and control of spin-forbidden dark excitons in a plasmonic heterostructure
Mak, K. F., Lee, C., Hone, J., Shan, J. & Heinz, T. F. Atomically thin MoS2: a new…
Astronomers solve cosmic mystery surrounding two massive black holes that shouldn’t exist
Astronomers knew something did not add up when detectors picked up a vast cosmic crash in 2023. The…
The prize at the end of the quantum tunnel
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis “for…