Orbital Hall conductivity and relaxation in thin films with variable disorder
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US’ new FIDDLE can capture split-second atomic changes under pressure
A specialized instrument called the flexible imaging diffraction diagnostic for laser experiments (FIDDLE) has been designed to capture…
We have 4 fundamental forces of nature. ‘Quantum gravity’ could help lead us to a mysterious 5th
For decades, scientists have searched for a fifth fundamental force of nature that can explain mysterious aspects of…
The Amaterasu Particle May Not Be a Proton at All, New Research Suggests
In 2021, scientists detected a cosmic ray entering Earth’s atmosphere with as much kinetic energy as a fast-moving…
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at…
Ask me anything: Mary Bishai – ‘For a self-professed nerd like me, doing big science is heaven’ – Physics World
Ask me anything: Mary Bishai – ‘For a self-professed nerd like me, doing big science is heaven’ –…
Sunlight can produce correlated pairs of photons – Physics World
Sunlight can produce correlated pairs of photons – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics…
Strange ‘little red dots’ may be growing supermassive black holes
Little red dots have puzzled astronomers ever since NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered them in 2022. These…
Success! Physicists Build The World’s First Clocks Powered by Atomic Nuclei : ScienceAlert
A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time. Using…
Can black holes send information back in time?
If something is allowed by the laws of physics, then scientists can assume that it probably exists. Under…
Meet Harish-Chandra: The forgotten Indian mathematician who corrected a Nobel laureate and transformed modern physics |
Some scientists make discoveries. Others create entirely new ways of understanding the universe. Harish-Chandra belonged to the latter…
Oxford physicists just made Schrödinger’s cat even stranger
Researchers at the University of Oxford have created a new type of quantum superposition, a phenomenon often associated…