Quantum ‘Jamming’ Could Help Unlock the Mysteries of Causality
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For the past few decades, researchers have understood…
Stephen Hawking’s father worried his son ‘does not study much’, diaries reveal | Stephen Hawking
In exploring the physics and geometry of the universe, Stephen Hawking became a world-renowned pioneer of black hole…
Probing the quantum metric of 3D topological insulators
Hasan, M. Z. & Kane, C. L. Colloquium: Topological insulators. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045–3067 (2010). Article CAS …
Supermassive Black Holes Can Render Exoplanets Uninhabitable at Great Distances
The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet’s distance from its star. Too close, and…
Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 3: Tiny Chemistry Labs
(This is Part 3 of a series on cosmic dust. Read Part 1 and Part 2 first.) But…
A mysterious galaxy defies science: astronomers stunned by its motionless core
A mysterious galaxy defies science: astronomers stunned by its motionless core – Futura-Sciences May 22, 2026 4 min…
Oxygen-centred planar orbitals in the electronic structure and spin-density-wave reconstruction of multilayer nickelates
Bednorz, J. G. & Müller, K. A. Possible high Tc superconductivity in the Ba–La–Cu–O system. Z. Phys. B…
Negative time could be real as light appears to exit atoms before entry
Physicists have just uncovered fresh evidence for a bizarre quantum phenomenon called negative time, where photons appear to…
New quantum sensor could count individual photons and hunt dark matter
Researchers in Finland have achieved a major advance in ultra-sensitive measurement technology by detecting an amount of energy…
Quantum Dynamics Advance Overturns Claim of ‘Quantum Supremacy,’ Opens New Research Directions
Insider Brief Researchers at the Simons Foundation’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics and collaborators at Boston University reported…
Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Could Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…
The most accurate atomic clocks in operation now lose less than one second every 30 billion years — and the reason this matters isn’t precision for its own sake, it’s that gravity itself slows time slightly, and these clocks are now sensitive enough to measure the difference between sitting on the floor and standing upright in the same room.
There is a particular fact about the most precise atomic clocks currently in operation that the wider cultural…