Is China’s ‘God particle’ quest over? World’s largest collider project may be dropped
The quest to understand the “God particle” may have just hit a wall in China. An ambitious multibillion-dollar…
Astronomers witness most powerful black hole flare ever — as bright as 10 trillion suns
Astronomers generally assume that active galaxies may shift and flicker, since their central supermassive black holes tend to…
Breakthrough links magnetism and electricity for faster tech
Engineers at the University of Delaware have uncovered a new way to connect magnetic and electric forces in…
On-chip quantum interference of indistinguishable single photons from integrated independent molecules
Pelucchi, E. et al. The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies. Nat. Rev. Phys.…
Zeroing In on Zero-Point Motion Inside a Crystal
November 5, 2025• Physics 18, 178 A nanocrystal cooled to near absolute zero produces an unexpected light emission,…
Caltech’s Pioneering Quantum Hub Celebrates 25 Years
In September 2000, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) was born (albeit with a different name,…
An optical meta-image-processor for enhanced imaging through strongly scattering media
Principle In an ideal imaging system, the PSF appears as a distinct Airy pattern, as shown in Fig. 1a.…
New quantum hardware puts the mechanics in quantum mechanics
Even in its simplified form, however, it’s still a model of a quantum system, with all the computational…
Millisecond lifetimes and coherence times in 2D transmon qubits
Place, A. P. M. et al. New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3…
Quantum fusion of independent networks based on multi-user entanglement swapping
Xu, F., Ma, X., Zhang, Q., Lo, H. K. & Pan, J. W. Secure quantum key distribution with…
John Joannopoulos (1947–2025) | Nature Photonics
Authors and Affiliations Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Marin Soljačić Department of Electrical…
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…