Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron…
Fermilab’s SQMS Center funded with $125 million to shape the future of quantum information science
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has renewed the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS),…
Lateral exchange bias for Néel-vector control in atomically thin antiferromagnets
Figure 1a-i shows a representative cross-section through our sample that consists of a CrSBr bilayer with adjacent flakes of…
Dark matter obeys gravity after all — could that rule out a 5th fundamental force in the universe?
Scientists have discovered that dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious “stuff,” obeys gravity on vast cosmological scales. This…
Magnetic Forces Funnel Gas And Dust Into Young Stars
Star formation has a lot of complex physics that feed into it. Classical models used something equivalent to…
Amplitude and phase control in SIW structures by tuning multilayered graphene
The topology of the GHMSIW attenuator is shown in Fig. 1. The attenuator is simulated by the finite element…
Even Dark Matter Can’t Catch a Break From Gravity, Study Suggests
There’s still a lot we don’t know about dark matter, or the “missing” mass supposedly constituting around 85%…
New evidence suggests Einstein’s cosmic constant may be wrong
Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to drive the universe’s accelerating expansion, remains one of the deepest puzzles…
German Physicists Turn To A Surprising New Tool To Unlock The Mystery Of Dark Matter
Their experiment, part of the SWEET project, used sucrose crystals cooled to near absolute zero to try and…
Plasma lens for focusing attosecond pulses
Bor, Z. Distortion of femtosecond laser pulses in lenses and lens systems. J. Mod. Opt. 35, 1907–1918 (1988).…
Modeling Black Holes Is Easier With A Flicker Of Light
A few days ago, I wrote about non-singular black hole models, specifically one known as the Hayward model.…
Scientists Use Novel Materials That Mimic Wormholes and Multiple Realities to “Transcend the Limitations of Physical Dimensions”
In Erwin Schrödinger’s most famous thought experiment, a cat is seemingly able to be alive and dead simultaneously,…