Scientists just created spacetime crystals made of knotted light
An internationally joint research group between Singapore and Japan has unveiled a blueprint for arranging exotic, knot-like patterns…
Catching Ghost Particles in Real Time
Deep beneath the ice at the South Pole sits one of the world’s most extraordinary scientific instruments: the…
Attosecond control and measurement of chiral photoionization dynamics
Chirality is traditionally viewed as a structural property of matter. The spatial arrangement of atoms in molecules and…
Famous double-slit experiment gets its cleanest test yet – Physics World
Famous double-slit experiment gets its cleanest test yet – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…
First measurement of X-ray polarization from a magnetar outburst
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) measured X-ray polarization during an outburst from the magnetar 1E 1841-045, marking…
Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes
In 2012, physicists showed that this paradox is tightly linked to the nature of the event horizon. They’d…
Realization of an untrusted intermediate relay architecture using a quantum dot single-photon source
Shor, P. W. Algorithms for quantum computation: discrete logarithms and factoring. In Proc. 35th Annual Symposium on Foundations…
Ultrafast decoupling of polarization and strain in ferroelectric BaTiO3
Photoinduced structural dynamics Our sample consists of a coherently strained, monodomain BaTiO3 (BTO) thin film, grown on a…
These Stars Don’t Burn – They Annihilate Dark Matter
Mysterious “dark dwarfs” may glow eternally by burning invisible dark matter — and spotting them could finally crack…
Confirmed-astronomers capture cosmic web for the first time and reveal hidden highways connecting galaxies in the universe
We have been looking at the sky for centuries and creating theories about how the universe holds itself…
LIGO, facing threats of closure, more than doubles its black hole haul
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Andi goes to space camp
“Space Camp was amazing because I lived and trained like an astronaut for a week. We had lectures…