Scientists demonstrate sustained operation of the world’s first self-regulating nuclear clock
A thorium-229 nuclear clock in Vienna ran for more than 24 hours without intervention, automatically correcting its laser…
General Fusion hits world-first 1 keV milestone with plasma squeeze
Scientists have superheated a trapped plasma to more than 12 million degrees Celsius (21.6 million degrees Fahrenheit). This…
Quantum X Labs Seeks Patent for Structured-Beam Atom Cooling System
Insider Brief Quantum X Labs has filed a USPTO patent application for a structured-beam Zeeman slower and atomic…
‘Camera’ captures shockwaves as quantum bit forms inside a crystal
Scientists have recorded what happens inside a crystal in the split second before a quantum bit forms. A…
Short-range excitonic correlations and enhanced excitonic susceptibility in 1T-TiSe2
Qi, R. et al. Perfect Coulomb drag and exciton transport in an excitonic insulator. Science 388, 278–283 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl1839…
Two mysterious red dots in space: are supermassive black holes set to collide?
Two mysterious red dots in space: are supermassive black holes set to collide? – Futura-Sciences October 8, 2026…
Magnetic control of an exciton–polariton condensate in a van der Waals magnet
Deng, H. et al. Exciton–polariton Bose–Einstein condensation. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 1489–1537 (2010). Article CAS Google Scholar Bloch,…
An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light
Once cooled, the laser light has to give the bead a bit of a kick in just the…
The formation of merging black holes via stable mass transfer in massive binary stars
Abac, A. G. et al. GWTC-4.0: an Introduction to version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog. Astrophys. J.…
MIT Study Reveals Why a Neutrino Laser May Be Impossible
A bold proposal to make a “neutrino laser” has run into a fundamental quantum obstacle. The reason lies…
New X-ray Technique Helps Scientists Watch Quantum Materials Respond to Laser Pulses
Insider Brief Argonne researchers developed an X-ray imaging technique to track silicon carbide’s response to ultrafast laser pulses,…
Einstein Probe reveals a hidden phase of neutron star collisions
Short gamma-ray bursts, or short GRBs, are believed to occur when two compact objects, such as neutron stars,…