Ask Ethan: Why do gravitational lenses make crosses, not rings?
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Chinese scientists unlock possible key to dark matter after almost 90 years
Chinese scientists have made the first direct observation of a quantum effect that was proposed almost 90 years…
An alternate chapter in magnetism
A recently proposed class of magnets, so-called altermagnets, combine features of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. We discuss the scientific…
Is The Theory Of Special Relativity Wrong?
There’s an adage coined by [Ian Betteridge] that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered…
Hawking predicted it — Experts now say time itself will end on this date, long after humans are gone
Stephen Hawking was right all along. As the universe is currently in constant expansion, moving beyond what humans…
This Quantum Discovery May Bypass the ‘No-Cloning Theorem,’ Opening the Door to Quantum Cloud Storage
Scientists have demonstrated a new method that could allow quantum information to be safely backed up, overcoming one…
Emergent electric field induced by dissipative sliding dynamics of domain walls in a Weyl magnet
Volovik, G. E. Linear momentum in ferromagnets. J. Phys. C 20, L83 (1987). Article ADS Google Scholar Tatara,…
Gaussian Quantum Fisher Information Splitting Advances Metrology With Symplectic Geometry
The fundamental limits of precision measurement with quantum states are currently being redefined through new understandings of the…
Quantum state teleported between quantum dots at telecoms wavelengths – Physics World
Quantum state teleported between quantum dots at telecoms wavelengths – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…
Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons
Greene, J. E. et al. UNCOVER spectroscopy confirms the surprising ubiquity of active galactic nuclei in red sources…
A New Atlas of the Milky Way’s Ghost Particles
Right now, as you read this sentence, roughly a trillion neutrinos are passing straight through your body. They…
These Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Could Resolve The Hubble Tension
One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the Universe’s rate of expansion. Scientists know it’s…