Scientists Just Built an Atom That Shouldn’t Exist or Work, But It Does, and It Changes Everything
Known as giant superatoms, these structures combine multiple oversized artificial atoms, allowing them to interact with light across…
Unveiling the Turbulent ‘Teenage Years’ of the Universe
Combining data from different telescopes is one of the best ways to get a fuller picture of far-off…
Excitonic negative refraction mediated by magnetic orders
Withers, F. et al. Light-emitting diodes by band-structure engineering in van der Waals heterostructures. Nat. Mater. 14, 301–306…
A Black Hole Just Came Back to Life After 100 Million Years, And It’s Bigger Than You Think!
Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery in the galaxy J1007+3540, where a supermassive black hole has begun emitting…
World’s first ‘graviton trap’ aims to solve century-old physics mystery
Physicists from Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University have launched an experimental program to detect gravitons —…
They captured a gamma-ray burst lasting just 10 seconds, and the question is no longer what it was, but how it could have traveled almost 13 billion years to arrive right now
For barely ten seconds in March 2025, a burst of high-energy light slammed into the detectors of a…
Integrated-photonics-based systems for polarization-gradient cooling of trapped ions
Conceptual overview of integrated-photonics-based architectures for polarization-gradient cooling Integrated-photonics-based ion-trap chips build upon traditional surface-electrode-based trap chips by…
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to…
Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…
Strange ‘Little Red Dots’ in Space Have a Mind-Boggling Explanation, Scientists Discover
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China’s “Artificial Sun” Just Smashed a Key Fusion Barrier and Physics May Never Be the Same
As the world’s first superconducting tokamak, EAST（Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak）has three distinctive features: non-circular cross-section, fully superconducting magnets…
Ask Ethan: Why do gravitational lenses make crosses, not rings?
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