Physics

In a lab in Stuttgart, physicists have quietly pulled off something that once belonged in science fiction. They…

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond.…

A six-year survey covering 669 million galaxies has revealed insight into dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon driving the…

Stas, P.-J. et al. Robust multi-qubit quantum network node with integrated error detection. Science 378, 557–560 (2022). Article …

Astrophysicists are closer than ever to solving the mystery of what makes up almost 70 percent of the…

Could silicon become the bedrock of quantum computers? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…

image: The Dark Matter distribution in the COSMOS field observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and by…

In 2023, China’s ‘electromagnetic sledge’ system became the first large-scale electromagnetic launcher to break the sound barrier. During…

Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have shown that quantum entanglement can be…

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of…

This brain drain appears to be real. I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind…

Researchers have assembled the most detailed view to date of how dark energy has shaped the cosmos, using…

In a laboratory, they manage to teleport quantum information between photons born in different crystals, and the technical detail that makes this possible sounds like the internet of the future