Atomic clocks may be powerful enough to detect the quantum fabric of time
Time feels familiar. It marks every moment of daily life, from the ticking of a wall clock to…
There is a black hole sitting roughly 10 billion light-years away from Earth, called TON 618, with a mass about 66 billion times that of our Sun — more massive than every star in the Milky Way galaxy combined — and its outer edge stretches across a region of space roughly 30 to 40 times wider than our entire solar system
If you point a powerful telescope at the right patch of sky on the border between the constellations…
Altermagnets can turn neighbouring materials altermagnetic, too – Physics World
Altermagnets can turn neighbouring materials altermagnetic, too – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics…
Astronomers detect winds from a black hole reaching 30% of the speed of light
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing two black holes. Recently, astronomers have detected powerful winds in a…
Space-time holograms based on programmable metasurfaces
Zheng, G. et al. Metasurface holograms reaching 80% efficiency. Nat. Nanotechnol. 10, 308 (2015). Article Google Scholar Gopakumar,…
US: Scientists find Higgs mode in a semiconductor for the first time
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the US found an elusive type of vibration, called the…
Two-component exciton condensates in an electron–hole bilayer
Stamper-Kurn, D. M. & Ueda, M. Spinor Bose gases: symmetries, magnetism, and quantum dynamics. Rev. Mod. Phys. 85,…
23,000-pound magnet to power world’s most advanced fusion system
A massive magnet that crossed the Atlantic Ocean has brought one of America’s most ambitious fusion projects a…
David Kipping Has a New Take on the Existence of Advanced Life in the Universe… and the Numbers are Not Encouraging!
Between the mid-70s and early 80s, two physicists (Michael Hart and Frank Tipler) published a controversial series of…
In situ nanocrystal confinement for efficient blue perovskite LEDs
Ma, D. et al. Distribution control enables efficient reduced-dimensional perovskite LEDs. Nature 599, 594–598 (2021). Article ADS CAS …
AI and Physics Have More in Common Than You Might Think
There’s a reason that the boom of artificial intelligence is being referred to as a “brave new world”…
This Quantum Detector Boosts Terahertz Sensitivity by 20 Times
Detecting terahertz radiation using a quantum metasurface-based photoelectric tunable-step terahertz detector – a path to high-sensitivity imaging and…