An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet
This final measured value came in incredibly close to Einstein’s general relativity predictions, carrying a tiny margin of…
Force-based reading and writing of individual single-atom magnets
Herein, we utilize holmium (Ho) adatoms on MgO as single-atom magnet, a system that is regarded as a…
Trying to break a photon would create a quantum mess
electron: A negatively charged particle, usually found orbiting the outer regions of an atom; also, the carrier of…
Physicist Explains How to “Bend it Like Beckham”
It contributed to soccer legend David Beckham’s record number of goals on direct free kicks, and entered popular…
Scientists achieve the impossible by creating matter from empty space
Something has been lurking in empty space, and for the first time, physicists may have caught it leaving…
Magnetic quantum material enables one-way electrical transport
Scientists at Penn State and Saint Louis University have demonstrated that a magnetic quantum material can naturally produce…
Meet Sabrina Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her, NASA wanted her, but she chose physics
Most children dream of flying a plane. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built one. By the time she was 14,…
New study explains why some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise
Some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise, such as from ventilation systems, heat pumps, wind turbines and…
Bose–Einstein condensate of ultracold sodium–rubidium molecules with tunable dipolar interactions
Carr, L. D., DeMille, D., Krems, R. V. & Ye, J. Cold and ultracold molecules: science, technology and…
Principles of optics in Fock space for the scalable manipulation of large quantum states
Maxwell, J. C. VIII. A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 155, 459–512…
Millisecond coherence times in gigahertz-frequency mechanical oscillators
Goryachev, M. & Tobar, M. E. Gravitational wave detection with high frequency phonon trapping acoustic cavities. Phys. Rev.…
Physicists created a tiny universe where time emerged without a clock
A physicist at the University of Birmingham has created a laboratory “mini universe” that brings scientists a step…