China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks a long-standing fusion limit
China has moved one step closer to clean fusion energy by breaking a long-standing rule in plasma physics.…
Mysterious ‘Cloud-9’ May Be The Dark-Matter Bones of a Failed Galaxy : ScienceAlert
An object spotted in deep space is the strongest candidate yet for a galaxy arrested during early development.…
Black holes are twisting the universe: New discovery shows Einstein was right |
Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy…
A Baffling Paradox Led Physicists to the Discovery of Particles of Light That Can Exist in 37 Different Dimensions
Physicists have demonstrated a bizarre paradox that offers new insights into a unique aspect of quantum mechanics, potentially…
Earliest, hottest galaxy cluster gas on record could change our cosmological models
image: Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early Universe: radio jets from active galaxies are…
Physics World January 2026 – Physics World
Physics World January 2026 – Physics World Skip to main content Physics World January 2026 This issue of…
First Ever Measurement Of Mass And Distance Of A Rare Free-Floating, Saturn-Sized “Rogue” Planet
The galaxy is expected to be home to billions of free-floating, or “rogue”, planets that have no stellar…
A metastable tetragonal phase in two-dimensional halide perovskite lattices driven by a coherent Higgs mode
Dhanabalan, B. et al. Directional anisotropy of the vibrational modes in 2D-layered perovskites. ACS Nano 14, 4689–4697 (2020).…
Astronomers Detect What Could Be the the First-Ever “Superkilonova” in the Universe’s Explosive History
It started with a ripple. Just before dawn on 18 August 2025, deep beneath the quiet arms of…
Imaging supermoiré relaxation in helical trilayer graphene
Nam, N. N. & Koshino, M. Lattice relaxation and energy band modulation in twisted bilayer graphene. Phys. Rev.…
What does oxygen in JWST’s most distant galaxies really mean?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Scientists Made a Quantum Leap and Entered a New Kind of Matter, and It Lasted Two Seconds
First proposed in the 1920s by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein, the concept of a BEC predicted…