Atomic clocks may be powerful enough to detect the quantum fabric of time
Time feels familiar. It marks every moment of daily life, from the ticking of a wall clock to…
There is a black hole sitting roughly 10 billion light-years away from Earth, called TON 618, with a mass about 66 billion times that of our Sun — more massive than every star in the Milky Way galaxy combined — and its outer edge stretches across a region of space roughly 30 to 40 times wider than our entire solar system
If you point a powerful telescope at the right patch of sky on the border between the constellations…
Altermagnets can turn neighbouring materials altermagnetic, too – Physics World
Altermagnets can turn neighbouring materials altermagnetic, too – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics…
Astronomers detect winds from a black hole reaching 30% of the speed of light
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing two black holes. Recently, astronomers have detected powerful winds in a…
Atmospheric asymmetries in WASP-121 b revealed by rotational transits detected with JWST
Observations and data reductionsJWST/NIRSpec G395H observations The JWST observed the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121 b starting 145 min before the…
Space-time holograms based on programmable metasurfaces
Zheng, G. et al. Metasurface holograms reaching 80% efficiency. Nat. Nanotechnol. 10, 308 (2015). Article Google Scholar Gopakumar,…
US: Scientists find Higgs mode in a semiconductor for the first time
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the US found an elusive type of vibration, called the…
Precise measurement of the absolute sky brightness at 60–350 MHz
GINAN receiver with advanced architecture The GINAN receiver implements a new architecture that dynamically self-calibrates for receiver noise…
Two-component exciton condensates in an electron–hole bilayer
Stamper-Kurn, D. M. & Ueda, M. Spinor Bose gases: symmetries, magnetism, and quantum dynamics. Rev. Mod. Phys. 85,…
23,000-pound magnet to power world’s most advanced fusion system
A massive magnet that crossed the Atlantic Ocean has brought one of America’s most ambitious fusion projects a…
David Kipping Has a New Take on the Existence of Advanced Life in the Universe… and the Numbers are Not Encouraging!
Between the mid-70s and early 80s, two physicists (Michael Hart and Frank Tipler) published a controversial series of…
In situ nanocrystal confinement for efficient blue perovskite LEDs
Ma, D. et al. Distribution control enables efficient reduced-dimensional perovskite LEDs. Nature 599, 594–598 (2021). Article ADS CAS …