A Baby Star Blows A Giant Gaseous Ring
Despite all we’ve learned about star formation, the process is still riven with mystery. Our prying telescopic eyes…
Quantum computers keep losing data. This breakthrough finally tracks it
Quantum computers hold enormous promise, but they are still far from dependable. Their biggest weakness is instability, which…
Orazio Svelto (1936–2026) | Nature Photonics
Svelto, O. Appl. Opt. 1, 107–113 (1962). Article ADS Google Scholar Svelto, O. & Di Domenico, M. Appl.…
What if dark matter came in two states?
image: The constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) is home to Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. Messier…
Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle | MIT News
When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists’ understanding of the universe can tip into the…
Scientists observe particles emerging from nothing
Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have observed particles emerging directly from empty space for the first…
Scientists thought there was a black hole at the centre of our Galaxy. It turns out it may be something even stranger
Astronomers have proposed a radical alternative to the long-held belief that a supermassive black hole sits at the…
Physicists were studying empty space when flashes of “fake light” appeared where nothing should exist
Not everything that seems empty has nothing in it. The universe is a constant boiling pot of quantum…
Scientists Just Found a Supermassive Black Hole That Lost 95% of Its Brightness… In Just Two Decades
Astronomers have observed a distant galaxy’s supermassive black hole undergoing a dramatic transformation. The galaxy’s black hole experienced…
Japanese quantum physicist quits University of Tokyo for Hong Kong position with triple pay, 10x lab budget
He says a rival offer delivered roughly three times his Japanese pay and a research budget about 10…
Protected quantum gates using qubit doublons in dynamical optical lattices
Jaksch, D., Briegel, H.-J., Cirac, J. I., Gardiner, C. W. & Zoller, P. Entanglement of atoms via cold…
High-precision calculation of the quark–gluon coupling from lattice QCD
At the fundamental level, the strong nuclear force between nucleons arises from quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a quantum field…