These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them
Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik Edited by Patrick Charbonneau et al. Cambridge Univ. Press…
Black holes are twisting the universe: New discovery shows Einstein was right |
Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy…
China Unveils “Artificial Sun”, Breaking Fusion Limit With First-Ever Stable High Density
China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has achieved a long-theorized state in nuclear fusion called a “density-free regime,”…
A Baffling Paradox Led Physicists to the Discovery of Particles of Light That Can Exist in 37 Different Dimensions
Physicists have demonstrated a bizarre paradox that offers new insights into a unique aspect of quantum mechanics, potentially…
Ultramassive Black Holes and Their Galaxies: A Matter of Scale
Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and…
Earliest, hottest galaxy cluster gas on record could change our cosmological models
image: Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early Universe: radio jets from active galaxies are…
Physics World January 2026 – Physics World
Physics World January 2026 – Physics World Skip to main content Physics World January 2026 This issue of…
First Ever Measurement Of Mass And Distance Of A Rare Free-Floating, Saturn-Sized “Rogue” Planet
The galaxy is expected to be home to billions of free-floating, or “rogue”, planets that have no stellar…
A metastable tetragonal phase in two-dimensional halide perovskite lattices driven by a coherent Higgs mode
Dhanabalan, B. et al. Directional anisotropy of the vibrational modes in 2D-layered perovskites. ACS Nano 14, 4689–4697 (2020).…
Hottest And Earliest Galaxy Cluster Gas Ever Found Could Challenge Current Cosmological Models
It seems that in the last few years, we have been collecting a lot of objects, phenomena, and…
Physicists found hidden order in violent proton collisions
High energy proton collisions can be pictured as a roiling sea of quarks and gluons, including short lived…
Astronomers Detect What Could Be the the First-Ever “Superkilonova” in the Universe’s Explosive History
It started with a ripple. Just before dawn on 18 August 2025, deep beneath the quiet arms of…