PPhysics Read More How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive NeutrinoJune 25, 2026 Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with…
PPhysics Read More A ‘direct wave’ from colliding black holes reveals signature of a whirlpool in spacetimeJune 25, 2026 Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren’t always silent. When…
PPhysics Read More Harvesting UV Light from sunlight just got ‘solid’June 24, 2026 image: A new solid-state material from Kyushu University turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity. By…
PPhysics Read More Inertial migration of spherical particle in shear flow of shear-thinning fluids | Journal of Fluid MechanicsJune 24, 2026 3.1. Effect of Carreau number, viscosity ratio and power-law index We begin by examining the influence of shear…
PPhysics Read More New superconducting X-ray detector is up to 1,000 times more sensitiveJune 24, 2026 A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between…
PPhysics Read More Bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy discovered by citizen scientistJune 24, 2026 Astronomers have discovered a “remarkable” bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy with an enormous arc-like structure extending nearly 1.8 million light-years…
PPhysics Read More Amaravati Quantum Valley reaches 4 Kelvin with indigenous dilution refrigeratorJune 24, 2026 India has taken a significant step towards building its own quantum computing ecosystem after Amaravati Quantum Valley (AQV)…
PPhysics Read More Sterically protected π-electron systems for efficient solid-state photon upconversionJune 24, 2026 Takata, T. et al. Photocatalytic water splitting with a quantum efficiency of almost unity. Nature 581, 411–414 (2020).…
PPhysics Read More A company outside Boston just craned the second 48-ton half of a steel donut into Tokamak Hall and pushed its compact fusion reactor to 75% built, a machine chasing more energy out of fusion than it puts in by 2027, twelve years before the cathedral-sized ITER in FranceJune 23, 2026 KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Commonwealth Fusion Systems just craned the second half of a 48-ton steel donut into place, proving that…
PPhysics Read More The Poop Emoji Got Gravity Right, Physicists FindJune 23, 2026 The poop emoji accurately captures the typical poop shape in nature formed by the downward pull of gravity.…
PPhysics Read More IQM Says New Quantum Codes Cut Logical Error Rates by Up to 1,000 TimesJune 23, 2026 Insider Brief IQM Quantum Computers reported a quantum error-correction advance using directional tile codes, a new family of…
PPhysics Read More A Russian cosmonaut named Sergei Krikalev has physically travelled further into the future than almost any other human being in history — across six spaceflights and 803 cumulative days at orbital velocity, Einstein’s theory of special relativity has made him approximately 0.02 seconds younger than other people his ageJune 23, 2026 Einstein’s special theory of relativity, published in 1905, made a number of strange predictions about how time and…