In a first, US scientists turn exciton superfluids into supersolids
In a first, scientists at Columbia University in New York and the University of Texas in Austin turned…
Highly sensitive and stable perovskite detector for ultrahigh-energy radiations via dynamic repair regulation
Cao, Z. et al. Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 petaelectronvolts from 12 γ-ray Galactic sources. Nature 594, 33–36…
Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?
If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp…
Are there Hidden Dimensions to the Universe? Part 3: The Graviton Tower
This is Part 3 of a series on large extra dimensions. Read Parts 1 and 2. To test…
A Dense Clump Of Dark Matter, Not A Supermassive Black Hole, Could Reside In The Milky Way’s Center.
For years the scientific consensus was that a supermassive black hole (SMBH) resides in the center of the…
Winners of International Quantum Year science-journalism competition picked – Physics World
Winners of International Quantum Year science-journalism competition picked – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…
How do scientists hunt for dark matter? A physicist explains why the mysterious substance is so hard to find
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an…
Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and it could upend both particle physics and cosmology
An impossibly powerful “ghost particle” that recently slammed into Earth may have come from a rare type of…
Time is real – if you view it through the lens of heat
The way most people think about time is wrong. The notion that we share a ‘common time’ moving…
It’s Historic: Two Black Holes Have Just Been Photographed Together for the First Time
It’s Historic: Two Black Holes Have Just Been Photographed Together for the First Time – Futura-Sciences February 9,…
The Thin Surface That’s Breaking Light’s Biggest Rule
Researchers at Nanjing University have just broken a major optical rule with a groundbreaking design for metasurfaces, ultra-thin…
the new idea that turns the universe’s expansion into a kind of cosmic “fuel” that no one had taken this seriously before
For decades, black holes were treated like a cosmic punchline. In the 1930s, astronomer Arthur Eddington openly mocked…