All-optical modulation with single photons using an electron avalanche
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Reading a Quantum Clock Costs More Energy Than Actually Running One
Quantum technologies—devices that operate according to quantum mechanical principles—promise to bring users some groundbreaking innovations in whichever context…
Effective bands and band-like electron transport in amorphous solids
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We May Have Just Detected The Smallest Gravitational Wave Ever, A First Of Its Kind
In a single decade, we have gone from the first-ever gravitational wave detection to several hundred of them.…
Physicists reveal a new quantum state where electrons run wild
Electricity keeps modern life running, from cars and phones to computers and nearly every device we rely on.…
JWST Unveils Ghostly Flare at the Heart of the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Astronomers have recently uncovered a groundbreaking discovery about the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, using the…
China’s cosmic ray observatory uncovers mystery of cosmic ‘knee’
An aerial drone photo taken on October 28, 2025 shows a view of the Large High Altitude Air…
Switchable and tuneable high-performance acoustic modes in the L-X band using ferroelectric thin film on sapphire
Dielectric characterization The dielectric property of the Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 thin film is first characterized at an off-resonance frequency (10–500 MHz)…
The simulated Milky Way: 100 billion stars using 7 million CPU cores
image:Â Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution…
Microquasars emerge as the Milky Way’s most extreme particle engines
Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have finally clarified…
Astronomers Detect the Early Shape of a Star Exploding for the First Time
Conventional wisdom has it that stars keep their spherical shape because of the careful balance between gravitational pressure…
The Costs of Quantum Timekeeping
November 14, 2025• Physics 18, 182 Experiments reveal the surprisingly large amount of entropy—and thus heat—generated by a…