CERN Adds a New Particle to Large Hadron Collider’s Subatomic Zoo
The Large Hadron Collider’s subatomic discoveries didn’t stop with the Higgs boson: This week, scientists at Europe’s CERN…
The Seven-Hour Mass Explosion That Broke the Rules of the Universe
GRB 250702B emerged from the top edge of its host galaxy’s dark dust lane (see inset). Credit: NASA,…
Single-shot, reference-less computational wavefront sensing for complex optical fields
Hardy, J. W. Adaptive Optics for Astronomical Telescopes https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195090192.001.0001 (Oxford University Press, 1998). Wang, K. et al. Direct…
‘Doubly charmed’ subatomic particle discovered at Cern
A entirely new subatomic particle has been discovered by a team including British researchers at Cern, the nuclear…
Bose–Hubbard simulator with long-range hopping
Combescot, M. & Shiau, S. Y. Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics (Oxford Univ.…
Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts
Those experiments seek to answer some of the biggest questions in science. These include learning how the Universe…
Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts
“We always had the money for these projects,” he told me. “I do not understand how we ended…
How the strange quantum world becomes the reality we see
Quantum physics allows particles to exist in many possible states at the same time. But in the world…
Is the Universe Defective? Part 4: Hiding in Plain Darkness
This is Part 4 of a series on topological defects. Read Parts 1, 2, and 3. The WHAT?…
Origin of strange metallicity in a d-orbital kagome metal
In quantum materials, Coulomb interactions can cause two types of effects. In the first, phases with spontaneously broken…
Sir Anthony Leggett obituary | Physics
The launch in the 1950s of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, played an unexpected but important role…
At low exciton density, a superfluid suddenly stops flowing – Physics World
At low exciton density, a superfluid suddenly stops flowing – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…