A potential quantum leap — Harvard Gazette
The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers — supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than conventional…
Google’s DeepMind Cracks a Century-Old Physics Mystery With AI
For over a century, mathematicians and physicists have wrestled with the chaotic nature of fluid movement — how…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
Tabletop particle accelerator could transform medicine and materials science
A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table,…
Physics – Quantum Scars Unmasked
November 12, 2025• Physics 18, s146 A new approach finds useful patterns called quantum scars in the complex…
Scientists make dark excitons 300,000x brighter for quantum tech
Researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas at Austin have achieved…
Phase Transition Proceeds Slowly, Then All at Once
November 12, 2025• Physics 18, s148 Adding extra atoms between sheets of PdSe2 doesn’t affect the material’s layered…
Moving magnetic domain walls with sound alone
The device configuration used for the main experiment is sketched in Fig. 1a. The interdigital transducers (IDT) are deposited…
Material system enhances superconducting qubits
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 12 November 2025 In the development of large-scale quantum processors, material improvements yield rapid progress because…
I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket
How’s this for an academic dream team? Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman. The three physicists and…
Scientists solve the mystery of ‘impossible’ merger of ‘forbidden’ black holes
Scientists have gotten to the bottom of the mystery of an “impossible” merger between black holes that was…
Photoinduced twist and untwist of moiré superlattices
Cao, Y. et al. Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 80–84 (2018). Article …