The fastest, cheapest particle physics path to a Higgs factory
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Scientists use perfectly timed lasers pulses to pause silicon melting
A team of researchers from University of California and the University of Kassel in Germany has developed a…
What would space sound like if we could hear it?
Our universe is filled with floating nebulae, spinning planets and black holes. But if we closed our eyes…
Giant Einstein ring reveals one of the Universe’s biggest black holes
Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the…
A Third Intruder Discovered, And It’s A World First
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,…
Signs that dark energy varies over time pile up, raising questions about the fate of the cosmos!
A team of researchers—including Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, who first revealed the universe’s accelerated expansion—has developed a more…
The Universe’s Very First Stars Reveal An Unexpected Cosmic Chaos
A groundbreaking set of supercomputer simulations is offering a vivid glimpse into how the universe’s first stars, known…
Testing the Nature of 3I/ATLAS by Its Non-Gravitational Acceleration | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size(Image credit: Max Barry/Nation States) A simple way to…
First-Ever Look at Exploding Molecules Reveals Their Quantum Secrets
In the quantum world, molecules are always on the move. And for the first time ever, scientists have…
A Special Diamond Is the Key to a Fully Open Source Quantum Sensor
Quantum computing is either a distant dream or an imminent reality depending on who you ask. And while…
Bipartite Gaussian boson sampling in the time-frequency-bin domain with squeezed light generated by a silicon nitride microresonator
Experimental setup The experimental setup is shown in Fig. 1a. A butterfly laser diode emitting at a wavelength…
Stable singular fractional skyrmion spin texture from the quantum Kelvin–Helmholtz instability
Stegeman, G. & Segev, M. Optical spatial solitons and their interactions: universality and diversity. Science 286, 1518–1523 (1999).…