Little Red Dots Are The Seeds of Quasars and Supermassive Black Holes
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first looked at the darkest regions of the sky, it was…
How Reliable Are Quantum Batteries?
September 15, 2026• Physics 19, s114 Increasing the charging rate of a quantum battery leads to unavoidable fluctuations…
ETH Zurich physicists built an ‘atomic cannon’ to put Einstein’s theory of gravity to the test
Physicists at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute have created a narrow, cold-like beam of muonium, an…
Bay Area Physicists Research Potential First Detection of Dark Matter In Cutting-Edge Project
Scientists from Berkeley and Livermore national laboratories are part of a research team investigating what could be the…
Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum Test
A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
D-Wave Quantum (QBTS) Finalizes Definitive Agreement With U.S. Department of Commerce for Up to $100M to Accelerate U.S. Leadership in Quantum Computing
LOS ANGELES, CA – September 14, 2026 (NEWMEDIAWIRE) – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”),…
Weakly interacting spinons and tightly bound triplons in the frustrated quantum spin-Peierls chain
Tsui, D. C., Stormer, H. L. & Gossard, A. C. Two-dimensional magnetotransport in the extreme quantum limit. Phys.…
Shear-induced Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion in athermal jammed matter
Shear-rate dependence We start by focusing on a volume fraction ϕ = 0.68 (a value exactly in the middle of…
Overmassive black holes and little red dots naturally form in simulations
Our cosmological initial conditions are based on the simulation Phi-4096 of ref. 51. In this work, a dark-matter-only N-body…
Taking a Quantum Leap, Again
Published September 16, 2026 This is a summary of a story on Pratt School of Engineering. The National…
What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?
Meanwhile, on the theory side, things have been in a bit of flux. As we’ve added ever more…
Einstein’s theory of gravity could be shaken by a cold beam of atoms
Researchers at the Swiss institutes of ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen have produced an…