Is China’s ‘God particle’ quest over? World’s largest collider project may be dropped
The quest to understand the “God particle” may have just hit a wall in China. An ambitious multibillion-dollar…
Should we build an optical interferometer on the moon?
This image from the report shows permanently shadowed regions on the lunar South Pole. These regions could be…
Caltech’s Pioneering Quantum Hub Celebrates 25 Years
In September 2000, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) was born (albeit with a different name,…
Trying to find baby planets swaddled in dust
These are high-resolution ALMA images showing dust in protostellar disks, including some circumbinary disks. All of the disks…
Are the cosmic voids truly empty?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If we take out all the matter, neutrinos, dark matter, cosmic rays, and radiation…
An extremely luminous flare recorded from a supermassive black hole
Gezari, S. Tidal disruption events. Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 59, 21–58 (2021). Article ADS Google Scholar Komossa, S.…
Plasma lens can focus attosecond pulses across different ranges of XUV light
a, An attosecond pulse enters a capillary, where a strong electrical pulse generates a hydrogen plasma. As the…
The expansion of our universe may be slowing down. What does that mean for dark energy?
As if dark energy weren’t already mysterious and baffling enough, new research suggests that this unknown force may…
An optical meta-image-processor for enhanced imaging through strongly scattering media
Principle In an ideal imaging system, the PSF appears as a distinct Airy pattern, as shown in Fig. 1a.…
Two independent quantum networks successfully fused into one
Scheme of quantum network fusion, network architecture and operation principle. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01792-0 Many quantum…
New quantum hardware puts the mechanics in quantum mechanics
Even in its simplified form, however, it’s still a model of a quantum system, with all the computational…
Millisecond lifetimes and coherence times in 2D transmon qubits
Place, A. P. M. et al. New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3…