Scientists show quantum mechanics can work without imaginary numbers
A new analysis conducted by researchers at the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) Düsseldorf and the German Aerospace Center…
Creases as information bottlenecks in active elastic sheets
Odell, G. M., Oster, G., Alberch, P. & Burnside, B. The mechanical basis of morphogenesis: I. Epithelial folding…
Can Time Flow in Reverse? A Quantum Breakthrough Challenges Our Assumptions
Scientists have developed quantum control techniques that can suppress or even reverse a quantum system’s perceived arrow of…
A Quasar at Cosmic Dawn Flickers into View
Astronomers have detected a flickering quasar called J0439+1634 as it appeared only 850 million years after the Big…
Ultrafast, reconfigurable all-optical beam steering and spatial light modulation
Brongersma, M. L. et al. The second optical metasurface revolution: moving from science to technology. Nat. Rev. Electr.…
A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns
According to the standard model of cosmology, that expansion rate should be the same no matter how you…
Are Asteroid-Mass Black Holes Hiding in the Cosmic Gamma-Ray Glow?
There are multiple ways to form black holes. The one most commonly taught in high school physics classes…
NTHU Researchers Develop World’s Brightest Room-Temperature Single-Photon Source
Insider Brief Researchers at National Tsing Hua University developed a room-temperature single-photon source that emits more than 2.3…
When JWST looked at XLSSC 122, a galaxy cluster 10.4 billion light-years away, it caught gravity bending light from galaxies about 12 billion years in the past, and a dark matter core packed too tightly for cosmic noon
JWST has caught the galaxy cluster XLSSC 122 bending light from galaxies behind it into long blue-gray arcs,…
Twisting Quantum Potential Into Reality
Insider Brief UTS researchers and collaborators developed a twist-based method for controlling quantum light sources in hexagonal boron…
Fast X-Ray Transient, Meaning, Sources, Latest News
Fast X-ray Transients are energetic, non-repeating bursts of low-energy X-rays associated with violent cosmic events. Read more about…
Meet Jainendra K. Jain: The first Indian-origin physicist to win the Wolf Prize and transform quantum physics |
In the world of theoretical physics, some ideas solve a problem. Others reshape an entire field. Jainendra K.…