New semiconductor turns billions of spin oscillators into a shared time crystal
Continuous time crystals inside a semiconductor can synchronize with one another, locking many separate spin oscillators into a…
Engineer’s 88-pound trebuchet makes projectile fly at supersonic speeds
UK-based engineer Tom Stanton has successfully built a trebuchet that can send projectiles flying at supersonic speeds. Although,…
Topology-guided vortices in a polariton condensate
Luski, A. et al. Vortex beams of atoms and molecules. Science 373, 1105–1109 (2021). Article CAS PubMed Google…
How gravitational waves transformed our universe
Two black holes spiral around each other, drawing closer to a merger, in this illustration of the system…
Spectroscopy of Wigner crystal polarons in an atomically thin semiconductor
Device fabrication The flakes used for device fabrication were mechanically exfoliated from bulk crystals (HQ Graphene, WSe2, NIMS…
New Simons Collaboration Explores Defects in Physics
For centuries, physicists have described how the universe functions based on observations of the natural world taken at…
The Dark Matter Detector in the Scottish Borders
It turns out, the world’s biggest dark matter detector may well be the planet you’re standing (or sitting)…
107 years ago, the Eddington total eclipse experiment helped prove Einstein’s theory of relativity
On Wednesday a total solar eclipse will pass over Iceland and other parts of Europe. And while many…
Physicists Made 10,000 Particles Defy Newton’s Third Law for an Hour. Here’s How
Some laws of physics are so fundamental that they’ve served as the baseline for science for centuries. But…
Can Quantum Save Democracy? Quantum Voting Experiments Put Ballot Secrecy and Election Security to the Test
Insider Brief Three recent experiments show how quantum technology could protect ballot secrecy and help verify election integrity,…
Scientists Reveal Hidden Structure of a Quantum Fluid
Insider Brief Berkeley Lab researchers observed a tunable Bose-Einstein condensate of excitons in an atomically thin semiconductor, creating…
Thermal imaging technique helps overcome a major problem for gravitational-wave astronomy – Physics World
Thermal imaging technique helps overcome a major problem for gravitational-wave astronomy – Physics World Skip to main content…