The 3-Body Problem Just Got an Upgrade—and You Can Thank Einstein
I’ve yet to meet a physicist that didn’t believe in the beauty of the general theory of relativity—Einstein’s…
After Decades of Mystery, Scientists Have Finally Mapped the Milky Way’s Magnetic Field
For decades, scientists have suspected the presence of a magnetic field that holds the Milky Way together, but…
how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics – Physics World
Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics –…
Physicists push thousands of atoms to a ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ state — bringing the quantum world closer to reality than ever before
Physicists have put thousands of atoms into a “Schrödinger’s cat” state — smashing the record for the most…
Co-propagating photonic topological interface states with hybridized pseudo-spins
Lu, L., Joannopoulos, J. D. & Soljačić, M. Topological photonics. Nat. Photonics 8, 821–829 (2014). Article ADS Google…
Dissipative solitons in mode-locked parity–time-symmetric lasers
Bender, C. M. & Boettcher, S. Real spectra in non-Hermitian Hamiltonians having \({\mathcal{P}}{\mathcal{T}}\) symmetry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80,…
Physicists Converted Lead Into Gold
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Super-moiré spin textures in twisted two-dimensional antiferromagnets
Dietl, T. & Ohno, H. Dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: physics and spintronic structures. Rev. Mod. Phys. 86, 187–251 (2014).…
Is the whole universe just a simulation?
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an…
Fully autonomous tuning of a spin qubit
Here we provide details of the experimental setup and the algorithmic choices made in this study. We begin…
The Baby Universe Really Was a Goopy Soup, Research Suggests
In the moments following the Big Bang, the extreme heat and pressure coerced matter into a goopy mix…
China’s first-of-a-kind ABF crystal creates most energised solid-state laser beam
The shortest wavelength of a laser beam generated from a crystal has been realised in a laboratory at…