Physics

In a groundbreaking quantum optics experiment, researchers have produced a particle of light that simultaneously exists across 37…

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When the Sun erupts in its most violent flares, it doesn’t just hurl plasma and particles into space.…

The universe occasionally produces flashes of light so bright and so blue that they outshine entire galaxies, then…

The atom Photo: VCG Chinese scientists have for the first time directly observed the Migdal effect in neutron-nucleus…

The distribution of fragments of a shattering object becomes predictable Fragmentation has long been of interest to scientists,…

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Quantum metrology at NPL: we explore the challenges and opportunities – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…

Brubaker, B. M. et al. Optomechanical ground-state cooling in a continuous and efficient electro-optic transducer. Phys. Rev. X…

When stars at least thirty times the mass of our Sun reach the end of their lives, astronomers…

Galaxy clusters aren’t supposed to be scorching hot when they’re young. Like infants, they should need time to…

Observations Circinus was observed (ID: 4611; PI: Lopez-Rodriguez, E.) on 20240715 and 20250427 using the Aperture Masking Interferometry…

Galaxies don’t always die dramatically. Sometimes they fade away, slowly strangled by the very black holes at their…

Scientists Produced New Dimensions of Light, 37 of Them, to Be Exact