China’s gravity-detecting SQUID gets closer to spotting US nuclear submarines
Chinese researchers unveiled a gravity detector with world-leading precision last month, potentially expanding the military applications of the…
Sir Anthony Leggett obituary: theoretical physicist
Anthony Leggett not only carved out a reputation as a pioneering theoretical physicist but in 2003 shared the…
Physicists Found Something That Can Move Faster Than Light: The Darkness Inside It
For the first time, physicists have observed that ‘holes’ in light can move faster than the light itself.…
Gravitational effects could shed more light on the Hubble tension – Physics World
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US fusion breakthrough cracks decades-old heat load mystery in tokamaks
New research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has indicated that the rotation of the plasma core…
New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever
In a white paper posted the same day as the Caltech paper, Gidney and his collaborators announced that…
Trapped ion quantum technology gets smaller – Physics World
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New tweak to Einstein’s relativity could transform our understanding of the Big Bang
The Big Bang is often described as the moment everything began — a point of infinite density where…
Why Are Supermassive Black Holes Growing So Slowly?
As our powerful infrared telescopes allow astronomers to peer further and further back in time, they’ve discovered some…
Physicists just solved a strange fusion mystery that stumped experts
Scientists have struggled for years to explain a curious pattern inside tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines designed to one…
The Darkness Inside It : ScienceAlert
For the first time, physicists have observed that ‘holes’ in light can move faster than the light itself.…
These Pretty Light Cones Actually Represent Einstein’s Theory of Spacetime Relativity
Elliot McGucken These photos of 70-foot-tall light cones shimmering over the Californian desert may look beautiful, but scratch…