Black holes ring like bells – and scientists mapped the vibrations
After two black holes collide, the resulting object vibrates as it settles down. Those vibrations carry information about…
Neutral-Atom Quantum: What Is It, And Why Infleqtion Stands Out
Infleqtion at a Glance Infleqtion Late last year, I wrote a Forbes piece about IBM, the leader in…
Faint black hole ‘ringing’ provides a sharper test of Einstein’s gravity
When two black holes crash together, the violence does not end at impact. The newly formed black hole…
Quiz of the week: what technique may be able to create super-high laser intensities? – Physics World
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A New Theory of Dark Matter Could Solve Three Cosmic Mysteries
Dark Matter, the mysterious invisible mass theorized to account for 85% of matter in the Universe, continues to…
Extraordinary Breakthrough for Physics as Scientists Put Building-Size Magnet into the Palm of Your Hand
The two mini-mega magnets – credit, CC 4.0. Int – Science Advances (2026). DOI 10.1126sciadv.adz5826 In an extraordinary…
Spatially anisotropic Kondo resonance coupled with the superconducting gap in a kagome metal
Stewart, G. R. Unconventional superconductivity. Adv. Phys. 66, 75–196 (2017). Article ADS Google Scholar Scalapino, D. J. A…
All-optical control of antiferromagnetic domains via an inverse optical magnetoelectric effect
Kimel, A. V. & Li, M. Writing magnetic memory with ultrashort light pulses. Nat. Rev. Mater. 4, 189–200…
Controllable hydro-thermoelastic heat transport in ultrathin semiconductors at room temperature
Experimental details MoSe2 and MoS2 flakes of varying thicknesses were mechanically exfoliated from bulk crystals onto a viscoelastic…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
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Cavity quantum electrodynamics control of quantum Hall stripes
The prospect of optically inducing correlated electronic phases of matter on demand in solid-state systems has materialized in…
Top Singapore-based physicist relocates to China after superconductor breakthrough
Stephen Lin Er Chow, a physicist who designed a groundbreaking copper-free superconducting oxide capable of high-temperature superconductivity, has…