David Gross, Nobel Prize winner in physics: Humanity has a “very small” chance of surviving another 50 years
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Wormholes may enable time travel, astrophysicists find
A ring in space, at least on paper, can do something a black hole cannot. It can connect…
Expert breaks down the physics behind the World Cup
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. An expert…
Spatiotemporal shaping of broadband helical light pulses at relativistic intensities
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Europe’s First TES Spectrometer Makes Previously Impossible X-Ray Experiments Possible
The superconducting sensors need a temperature below 25 milli Kelvin. This is achieved by using a He4-He3 dilution…
Enter Helios: quantum computer sets high watermark for accuracy
In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields…
We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another — a discovery that won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Quantum tunnelling is usually introduced through the smallest things physics can describe: an alpha particle escaping a nucleus,…
Glass Cells of Atoms Offer a New Path to Smarter, Cheaper Sensors
Newswise — UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — More accurate navigation systems and improved wireless communications may not come from…
Texas Tech Researchers Probe Interstellar Explosions, Unlock Knowledge
Above: artistic impression of a nova explosion showing multiple ejections traveling in different directions. Photo credit: NASA’s Goddard…
What is the God particle: How the Higgs boson changed our understanding of the universe |
Image(s): Left/AI Generated/Right/Wikipedia For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature’s puzzle, an elusive particle believed…
Topological suppression of quantum tunnelling in a lanthanide single-ion molecular magnet
µSQUID-EPR mapping of tunnelling gaps The multilevel character of Et4N[160GdPc2] (or [160GdPc2]−) (S = 7/2, L = 0, I = 0), the sizable anisotropy,…
Coherent control of interacting solid-state spins below the diffraction limit
Togan, E. et al. Quantum entanglement between an optical photon and a solid-state spin qubit. Nature 466, 730–734…