Physicists just solved a strange fusion mystery that stumped experts
Scientists have struggled for years to explain a curious pattern inside tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines designed to one…
‘Project Hail Mary’s’ Relativity Problem Is More Complicated Than You Think
When Ryland Grace reaches Tau Ceti in Project Hail Mary, about four years have passed for his human…
New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang
One of the greatest unsolved problems in physics concerns unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity—two equally successful theories…
Groundbreaking new theory rewrites quantum view of the Big Bang
A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the…
Rare Gravitational Wave Discovery May Hold the Key to First Evidence of Primordial Black Holes
esearchers may have detected the first direct evidence of primordial black holes, potentially reshaping our understanding of dark…
Full space-time ultrafast self-focusing of spherical Airy wavepackets
Olarte, O. E., Andilla, J., Gualda, E. J. & Loza-Alvarez, P. Light-sheet microscopy: a tutorial. Adv. Opt. Photonics…
Fusion power unlikely to become competitive
Governments are committing substantial public funding to nuclear fusion power as a potential source of safe, dispatchable low-carbon…
China has activated a magnet 700,000 times more powerful than the Earth’s magnetic field that operates for over 200 consecutive hours while consuming little energy, and now the world wants to know what Beijing plans to do with this technology in 2026.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a superconducting magnet of 35.6 tesla, more than 700,000 times stronger…
Scientists achieve major breakthrough in pursuit of nearly limitless energy device
A Japanese nuclear fusion startup is one step closer to creating a commercially viable fusion power generation system.…
A 200-year-old light trick just transformed quantum encryption
As digital communication accelerates and cyber threats continue to rise, researchers are working to develop more secure ways…
Scientists were casually experimenting in the lab until a strange state of matter appeared that had been considered impossible for over 50 years
Science and energy generation are intrinsically linked. In recent years, we have made several astonishing scientific discoveries that…
Angle evolution of the superconducting phase diagram in twisted bilayer WSe2
Xia, Y. et al. Superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe2. Nature 637, 2025–838 (2025). Article Google Scholar Guo, Y.…