Scientists Discover Ordinary Ice Has Extraordinary Electrical Properties
Researchers have discovered that ice can generate electricity when bent or deformed, offering new insight into both nature…
Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves
For the first time, astrophysicists have measured the recoil — or “kick,” in the parlance — resulting from…
Physicists Propose a ‘Neutrino Laser’ Straight Out of Science Fiction : ScienceAlert
MIT physicists have proposed a way to make a super sci-fi-sounding device: a neutrino ‘laser,’ which could help…
Experiments Refute Dark Matter Claim
September 17, 2025• Physics 18, s117 Two direct-detection experiments see no evidence of a signal reported by their…
Japanese Scientists Solve Decades-Old Quantum Puzzle, Paving the Way for Teleportation and Advanced Computing
Scientists from Kyoto University and Hiroshima University have identified a novel method of understanding the long-elusive W state…
Atomic-scale imaging of frequency-dependent phonon anisotropy
Schubert, M. et al. Anisotropy, phonon modes, and free charge carrier parameters in monoclinic β-gallium oxide single crystals.…
Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves
For the first time, astrophysicists have measured the recoil — or “kick,” in the parlance — resulting from…
Mystery objects in the early universe may be black hole stars
Not everything in the universe is what it seems. Some things, like tiny red objects captured by NASA’s…
What are the ‘magic numbers’ in nuclear physics, and why are they so powerful?
Some atoms are stable, while others seem to fall apart. Lead-208 will probably last forever, while the synthetic…
Scientists just built a detector that could finally catch dark matter
About 80 percent of the universe’s mass is thought to consist of dark matter. And yet, little is…
Bilayer Graphene Slides into Action
September 16, 2025• Physics 18, s116 Sliding one layer of bilayer graphene over the other provides a powerful…
Physicists just found a way to make “something from nothing”
In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to a vacuum, electron-positron pairs…