A Quasar at Cosmic Dawn Flickers into View
Astronomers have detected a flickering quasar called J0439+1634 as it appeared only 850 million years after the Big…
Ultrafast, reconfigurable all-optical beam steering and spatial light modulation
Brongersma, M. L. et al. The second optical metasurface revolution: moving from science to technology. Nat. Rev. Electr.…
Can Time Flow in Reverse? A Quantum Breakthrough Challenges Our Assumptions
Scientists have developed quantum control techniques that can suppress or even reverse a quantum system’s perceived arrow of…
Are Asteroid-Mass Black Holes Hiding in the Cosmic Gamma-Ray Glow?
There are multiple ways to form black holes. The one most commonly taught in high school physics classes…
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
According to the standard model of cosmology, that expansion rate should be the same no matter how you…
NTHU Researchers Develop World’s Brightest Room-Temperature Single-Photon Source
Insider Brief Researchers at National Tsing Hua University developed a room-temperature single-photon source that emits more than 2.3…
Meet Jainendra K. Jain: The first Indian-origin physicist to win the Wolf Prize and transform quantum physics |
In the world of theoretical physics, some ideas solve a problem. Others reshape an entire field. Jainendra K.…
Observation of magnon polarons in the van der Waals itinerant ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2
Park, J.-G. Opportunities and challenges of 2D magnetic van der Waals materials: magnetic graphene? J. Phys. Condens. Matter…
Twisting Quantum Potential Into Reality
Insider Brief UTS researchers and collaborators developed a twist-based method for controlling quantum light sources in hexagonal boron…
Microscopic signatures of an imaginary charge density wave in a kagome metal
Affleck, I. & Marston, J. B. Large-n limit of the Heisenberg–Hubbard model: implications for high-Tc superconductors. Phys. Rev.…
Fast X-Ray Transient, Meaning, Sources, Latest News
Fast X-ray Transients are energetic, non-repeating bursts of low-energy X-rays associated with violent cosmic events. Read more about…
François Englert, Nobelist Who Helped Predict the ‘God Particle,’ Dies at 93
On July 4, 2012, scientists packed a large hall at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known…