The Solar System’s Largest Moon Could Hold the Secret to Unlocking Dark Matter
Dark matter, the elusive substance that makes up around 27% of the universe, remains one of the most…
The Mysterious Origins of the Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Detected
In February 2023, a cosmic particle detector housed deep in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the arrival of a…
Waterloo hosts North America’s only stop on global quantum light tour
As part of an international celebration marking 100 years since the birth of quantum mechanics, a unique light…
Physics – Skyrmions as Active Matter
August 18, 2025• Physics 18, 146 Pairs of skyrmions—tiny whirlpools that emerge in some magnetic materials—might be able…
Achromatic beam deflector with electrodynamic phased arrays
Chromatic aberration in the beam deflector and its compensation Beam steering with LC leverages its anisotropic characteristics to…
Gold refuses to melt at temperatures hotter than the Sun’s surface
Researchers taking the first-ever direct measurement of atom temperature in extremely hot materials inadvertently disproved a decades-old theory…
Rapid-response protocol promises to reveal supernovae only hours after they explode
Artistic elaboration based on images from the original paper. Credit: Galbany et al., JCAP, 2025. Supernovae appear to…
Control of spin qubits at near absolute zero a game changer for quantum computers
The qubits were supplied by Diraq, a UNSW spin-out established by Professor Andrew Dzurak, and the know-how that enabled…
Distinct terahertz nonlinear and Raman responses in cuprate superconductors Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x
Tinkham, M. Introduction to superconductivity. Second Edition, Dover Books on Physics (Courier Corporation, 2004). Kampfrath, T., Tanaka, K.…
Preventing an hour of intense pain in chickens costs less than a hundredth of a cent, say researchers
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new Commentary published today in Nature Food evaluates the impacts of the European…
How travel fatigue shapes holiday plans
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain You may have spent hours scheduling your holiday plans down to the last minute,…
Parker Solar Probe confirms decades-old theoretical models about magnetic reconnection
An SwRI-led study of the sun confirms decades-old theoretical models about solar magnetic reconnection. Measurements from NASA’s Solar…