Physicists Spent Years Hunting the “Ghost” Haunting the World’s Most Famous Particle Accelerator, and They Finally Found It
The Super Proton Synchrotron, known as the SPS, is a ring nearly four miles across that has been…
Scientists opened a sealed envelope after 10 years and gravity still didn’t make sense
For more than two centuries, scientists have tried to determine one of the most important numbers in physics:…
AI reveals the invisible magnetic chaos wasting energy inside electric motors
The explosive growth of electric vehicles has intensified the search for ways to make electric motors more energy…
Quantum ghost imaging works using only sunlight in stunning new experiment
Correlated and entangled photon pairs are essential tools in quantum optics. Scientists usually create these photon pairs through…
Faint black hole ‘ringing’ provides a sharper test of Einstein’s gravity
When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…
The Four Forces Of Physics
Everything you have ever touched, seen, or felt comes down to four forces. The four forces hold atoms…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
The biggest black holes grow by crashing into each other over and over again
Some of the biggest black holes ever picked up through gravitational waves may not have formed in a…
U.S. Department of Energy Issues RFI for 2028 Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a formal Request for Information (RFI) to identify companies capable…
Cross-probing van der Waals multiferroics
Schmid, H. Multi-ferroic magnetoelectrics. Ferroelectrics 162, 317–338 (1994). Article ADS Google Scholar Fiebig, M., Lottermoser, T., Meier, D. &…
Astronomers Observe Interstellar Turbulence Twisting and Distorting Light Across Our Galaxy
A team of astronomers has captured unprecedented details of how turbulence in the Milky Way’s interstellar medium bends…
China claims new photonic quantum computer leaves US rivals behind
Jiuzhang 4.0, China’s latest photonic quantum computer, is staking a claim to quantum supremacy. The photonic supercomputer completed…