Tabletop particle accelerator could transform medicine and materials science
A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table,…
Scientists make dark excitons 300,000x brighter for quantum tech
Researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas at Austin have achieved…
Phase Transition Proceeds Slowly, Then All at Once
November 12, 2025• Physics 18, s148 Adding extra atoms between sheets of PdSe2 doesn’t affect the material’s layered…
Physics – Quantum Scars Unmasked
November 12, 2025• Physics 18, s146 A new approach finds useful patterns called quantum scars in the complex…
Quantum Physics May Predict the Next Financial Crash, New Study Finds
When Albert Einstein first debated the strange logic of quantum mechanics, he probably didn’t imagine his ideas might one…
Material system enhances superconducting qubits
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Moving magnetic domain walls with sound alone
The device configuration used for the main experiment is sketched in Fig. 1a. The interdigital transducers (IDT) are deposited…
I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket
How’s this for an academic dream team? Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman. The three physicists and…
Mathematicians Just Made a Huge Breakthrough in Wave Prediction
Questions? Just ask math! Photo: Unsplash Since mathematicians became a thing in Babylonia somewhere around 2000 BC, number…
Euclid’s First Data Release Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution
The ESA’s Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the…
Scientists solve the mystery of ‘impossible’ merger of ‘forbidden’ black holes
Scientists have gotten to the bottom of the mystery of an “impossible” merger between black holes that was…
UW celebrating 40th anniversary of Nobel Prize-winning paper in physics
It has been 40 years since Donna Strickland and her two co-authors “revolutionized” a laser technique used in…