Physicists achieve high precision in measuring strontium atoms using rubidium neighbor
Small clouds of strontium atoms (blue) and rubidium atoms (red) are trapped together. The well-known properties of rubidium…
Magnetic Forces Funnel Gas And Dust Into Young Stars
Star formation has a lot of complex physics that feed into it. Classical models used something equivalent to…
Light can reshape atom-thin semiconductors for next-generation optical devices
A team of Rice University researchers and collaborators showed that a two-layer Janus TMD material—molybdenum sulfur selenide stacked…
Plasma lens for focusing attosecond pulses
Bor, Z. Distortion of femtosecond laser pulses in lenses and lens systems. J. Mod. Opt. 35, 1907–1918 (1988).…
A Colossal Wave Is Rippling Through The Milky Way, Gaia Data Reveals : ScienceAlert
The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a…
QSA Embarks on Next Five Years of Pioneering Quantum Tech – Berkeley Lab News Center
QSA’s initiatives have led to over a dozen patents, numerous scientific publications, and the creation of startups that…
Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…
The Early Universe Let Black Holes Break The Rules, Briefly : ScienceAlert
At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole…
Star-eating black hole unleashes record-setting energetic flare
Published on Nov. 4, 2025, 4:00 PM Researchers said the flare at its peak was 10 trillion times…
Photoinduced non-reciprocal magnetism effectively violates Newton’s third law
A non-reciprocal phase transition to a many-body, time-dependent chiral phase occurs in layered ferromagnets. Credit: Institute of Science…
The Early Universe Helps Black Holes Grow Big, But Not In The Long Run
At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole…
We might finally know what came before the Big Bang
Cosmology challenges some of the most fundamental questions we have about our existence – how did this all…