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…
Myth of wormholes and the quantum meaning of Einstein-Rosen Bridge
For decades, wormholes have been hypothesized as mysterious tunnels that might let us cross galaxies or even time…
Scientists Just Built an Atom That Shouldn’t Exist or Work, But It Does, and It Changes Everything
Known as giant superatoms, these structures combine multiple oversized artificial atoms, allowing them to interact with light across…
Unveiling the Turbulent ‘Teenage Years’ of the Universe
Combining data from different telescopes is one of the best ways to get a fuller picture of far-off…
Excitonic negative refraction mediated by magnetic orders
Withers, F. et al. Light-emitting diodes by band-structure engineering in van der Waals heterostructures. Nat. Mater. 14, 301–306…
A Black Hole Just Came Back to Life After 100 Million Years, And It’s Bigger Than You Think!
Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery in the galaxy J1007+3540, where a supermassive black hole has begun emitting…
World’s first ‘graviton trap’ aims to solve century-old physics mystery
Physicists from Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University have launched an experimental program to detect gravitons —…
They captured a gamma-ray burst lasting just 10 seconds, and the question is no longer what it was, but how it could have traveled almost 13 billion years to arrive right now
For barely ten seconds in March 2025, a burst of high-energy light slammed into the detectors of a…
Integrated-photonics-based systems for polarization-gradient cooling of trapped ions
Conceptual overview of integrated-photonics-based architectures for polarization-gradient cooling Integrated-photonics-based ion-trap chips build upon traditional surface-electrode-based trap chips by…
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to…