Black Holes Are the Elusive Source of the Universe’s Dark Energy, Study Argues
Dark energy—the hypothetical force accelerating our universe’s expansion—sometimes raises more questions than it answers. A new study, however,…
Astronomers See Inside The Core of a Dying Star For the First Time, Confirm How Heavy Atoms Are Made
An illustration of the ‘extremely stripped’ supernova 2021yfj. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure…
Scientists Crack the Code of China’s Mysterious “Matrix Tide”
On China’s Qiantang River, witnesses recently observed an extraordinary “matrix tide,” where colliding tidal bores formed a grid…
Optical focusing into scattering media via iterative time reversal guided by absorption nonlinearity
Wang, L. V. & Wu, H. Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging. (John Wiley & Sons, 2007). Hampson, K.…
Sean Carroll explains why physics is both simple and impossible
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What Came Before the Big Bang? New Study Says ‘Numerical Relativity’ Could Unlock Cosmology’s Biggest Mysteries
It is one of cosmology’s most perplexing questions: what happened before the Big Bang? Although the question has…
Pair of colliding galaxies may hint at the fate of the Milky Way and its closest galactic neighbor
New observations of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies hint at what might be in store for the…
Single-shot readout of the nuclear spin of an on-surface atom
Single-shot readout We investigate individual Ti atoms on the oxygen binding site of an MgO/Ag(100) substrate (see “Methods”),…
Néel spin-orbit torque in antiferromagnetic quantum spin and anomalous Hall insulators
Formalism We extend the Kane-Mele model by including a collinear AFM order which is exchange coupled to the…
Latest Data Rule Out a Leading Explanation of a Neutrino Anomaly
August 21, 2025• Physics 18, s115 The MicroBooNE experiment’s five-year dataset has shown that an unpredicted neutrino-flavor oscillation…
‘Rosetta stone’ of code allows scientists to run core quantum operation
A logic gate is an information switch that allows computers – quantum and classical – to be programmable…
‘Rosetta stone’ of code allows scientists to run core quantum operation
A logic gate is an information switch that allows computers – quantum and classical – to be programmable…