An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to…
Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…
Solving the Mystery of Blue Flashes
The universe occasionally produces flashes of light so bright and so blue that they outshine entire galaxies, then…
Ask Ethan: Why do gravitational lenses make crosses, not rings?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Chinese scientists unlock possible key to dark matter after almost 90 years
Chinese scientists have made the first direct observation of a quantum effect that was proposed almost 90 years…
What can you do with 380 million Higgs bosons? – CERN Courier
What is the fate of the universe? Why is there more matter than antimatter? What lurks beyond the…
Coherent nonlinear X-ray four-photon interaction with core-shell electrons
Mukamel, S., Healion, D., Zhang, Y. & Biggs, J. D. Multidimensional attosecond resonant X-ray spectroscopy of molecules: lessons…
Gaussian Quantum Fisher Information Splitting Advances Metrology With Symplectic Geometry
The fundamental limits of precision measurement with quantum states are currently being redefined through new understandings of the…
China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed a Key Fusion Barrier and Physics May Never Be the Same
As the world’s first superconducting tokamak, EAST（Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak）has three distinctive features: non-circular cross-section, fully superconducting magnets…
An alternate chapter in magnetism
A recently proposed class of magnets, so-called altermagnets, combine features of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. We discuss the scientific…
Is The Theory Of Special Relativity Wrong?
There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered…
Scientists Produced New Dimensions of Light, 37 of Them, to Be Exact
In a groundbreaking quantum optics experiment, researchers have produced a particle of light that simultaneously exists across 37…