US scientists show light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors
Light isn’t just illuminating materials anymore, it’s moving them. Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of…
a new look at magnetic excitations – Physics World
New research reveals how quantum effects in double-exchange ferromagnets drive unexpected magnetic behaviour Iron-based material (Courtesy: iStock/Assistantua) For…
Most Powerful Black-Hole Flare Ever Recorded Shone Like 10 Trillion Suns : ScienceAlert
In a flare of light that traveled for 10 billion years to reach us, astronomers have identified the…
What’s it like to live inside a void?
The cosmic voids of the universe are empty of matter. But we all know there’s more to the…
Scientists observe single top quark with W, Z bosons for first time
Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected a phenomenon that happens only every trillion proton collisions,…
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%…