Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Win Frontiers of Knowledge Award for “Magic Angle” Discovery » MIT Physics
The duo is recognized for the discovery of “twistronics,” a breakthrough in material science that allows scientists to…
Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes…
First indirect evidence for primordial monsters – CERN Courier
Collapsing monster Simulation of a primordial monster star giving birth to a quasar – an extremely luminous active…
Mystery of the Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Solved » Explorersweb
When the James Webb Space Telescope sent back its first images of the cosmos, astronomers were stunned to…
Webb may have captured the birth of a supermassive black hole
A strange, distant galaxy shows signs that suggest astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new supermassive black…
Supermassive black hole spotted awaken from 100 million-year slumber
Researchers have observed a long-dormant black hole being “reborn” in a distant galaxy. Located at the heart of…
A New Census of Dwarf Galaxies Shows More Massive Black Holes than Previously Thought
They are known as Active Galactic Nuclei (aka. quasars), the core regions of galaxies that are so bright…
Physicists Outline Technique to Scale Neutral-Atom Quantum Systems Beyond 100,000 Qubits
Insider Brief Researchers at Columbia University report a metasurface-based optical tweezer platform that provides a realistic path to…
Transport evidence for chiral surface states from three-dimensional Landau bands
The studied samples consist of rectilinear bars carved by FIB machining from a bismuth single crystal (Fig. 2).…
Scientists capture first real-time images of electrons breaking bonds
Chemistry textbooks explain how reactions start and end, but they rarely show what happens in between. Seeing these…
Quote of the day by American Physicist Richard P Feynman: ‘I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong’
In a world obsessed with certainty, quick answers, and confident opinions, Richard P Feynman offered a radically refreshing…
The First Law of Thermodynamics Has Been Rewritten
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The law is a bedrock of physics, but has…