Stanford quantum computing breakthrough uses twisted light to work without extreme cooling
Quantum computers today are notoriously difficult and expensive to operate. Most require temperatures near absolute zero, about -459…
The Force That Holds Atoms Together May Be Driving the Universe Apart
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The universe is expanding faster every second, and physicists…
Something Revealed Itself by Bending the Light of a Distant Star in 2019—Now Astronomers Are Racing to Find Out What It Was
For just an hour in late 2019, a cosmic mystery revealed itself to astronomers in an unprecedented way:…
The surface of the Sun is around 5,500 degrees, but its outer atmosphere is more than a million degrees hotter, and after decades of work physicists still cannot fully explain how the cooler layer heats the one above it.
The visible surface of the Sun, the photosphere, sits at around 5,500 degrees Celsius. Its outer atmosphere, the…
The ghost in the machine is real: How physicists finally tracked down the hidden force disrupting CERN’s most powerful accelerator |
Deep beneath the Swiss countryside, inside a ring of machinery nearly four miles across that has been running…
Cavity-driven attractive interactions in quantum materials
Lu, I.-T. et al. Cavity engineering of solid-state materials without external driving. Adv. Opt. Photonics 17, 441–525 (2025).…
Physicists say sending messages back in time may be possible
The scene from Interstellar is iconic: a father stranded in the future, tapping messages to his daughter, who…
Spin waves travel along Z-shaped path 5,000 times more efficiently
Researchers have invented a new way to efficiently guide spin waves around sharp corners with minimal loss –…
Quiz of the week: CERN may have made a quark–gluon plasma by colliding which nuclei? – Physics World
Quiz of the week: CERN may have made a quark–gluon plasma by colliding which nuclei? – Physics World…
Scientists Solved an ‘Impossible’ Quantum Puzzle With a Personal Computer : ScienceAlert
Efforts to advance quantum computing are also raising the bar for classical computing – showing that these conventional…
Twisted graphene reveals a hidden superconductivity switch
Researchers have uncovered evidence that superconductivity can be controlled by changing a material’s surrounding environment, a breakthrough that…
Scientists Found a Black Hole That Breaks The Rules of Astrophysics : ScienceAlert
Somewhere in the future, there’s a finish line in the marathon to understand supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We…