Physicists finally solve the strange mystery of “breathing” lasers
An international team of researchers, including a scientist from Aston University, has developed a new mathematical framework that…
Most of the matter in the universe has never been observed directly, and the existence of “dark matter” is essentially a placeholder name for the gap between what we can see and what the math requires — a placeholder we’ve been using confidently for about ninety years
The standard cultural framing of dark matter tends to treat it as a known scientific substance. The framing…
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…
Multi-viewpoint observation of a failed prominence eruption on the Sun
Priest, E. R. & Forbes, T. G. The magnetic nature of solar flares. Astron. Astrophys. Rev. 10, 313–377…
Nonlinear atomic tunnelling boosted by bright squeezed vacuum
Experimental details Both coherent and quantum light sources are pumped with the same femtosecond laser pulse (790 nm, 28 fs,…
You’ve Probably Never Seen a Full-Spectrum Color Photo
Science educator Steve Mould‘s newest video sheds fascinating light on an oft-forgotten color photography process. Mould’s video has…
A Physical Warp Drive Was Supposed to Be Impossible. Then These Scientists Found a Loophole.
In a surprising paper from 2021, scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire suggested that they’d nailed down a…
Physicists confirm ‘negative time’ is real in mind-bending quantum experiment
When a beam of light passes through a cloud of atoms, photons (particles of light) sometimes appear to…
Mergers, Mayhem, and the Milky Way
Mergers are a part of a galaxy’s life, and the Milky Way is no exception. Without mergers, the…
Electrically programmable circularly polarized three-dimensional display
Fattal, D. et al. A multi-directional backlight for a wide-angle, glasses-free three-dimensional display. Nature 495, 348–351 (2013). Article …
Molecular Qubit Achieves Single-Photon Quantum Control
Insider Brief Scientists demonstrated a single-molecule spin-photon interface using an organic carbene molecule embedded in a specially engineered…
Scientists Just Used Sunlight To Pull Off a Quantum Physics Feat Once Thought Impossible
Correlated photon pairs, generated via sunlight-pumped spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a nonlinear crystal, demonstrate ghost imaging. Credit: W.…