Pressure anisotropy-driven instabilities regulate the jovian magnetodisk
Magnetodisk crossings Magnetodisk crossings are characterized by reversals in the measured magnetic field. For example, Supplementary Fig. 1 shows…
Prof Peter Higgs Nobel Prize medal donated to Edinburgh University
PA Prof Higgs was a researcher at Edinburgh University in 1964 when he predicted the existence of a…
The forgotten pioneers of computational physics – Physics World
The forgotten pioneers of computational physics – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World…
Ask Ethan: How can we better measure G, the gravitational constant?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
The Physics of the Northern Lights
Neon lights are glass tubes containing neon or other gases. When an electric current is sent from one…
Mechanically steered photon upconversion and circularly polarized luminescence in stretchable photonic crystal films
Optimization of upconverted SPC films preparation and UCPL We prepared the BPEA/PtTPBP-loaded upconverted SPC films by using a…
Could black hole shadows reveal new theories of gravity?
This image, which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) released on March 27, 2024, shows the supermassive black hole…
Wild new “gyromorph” materials could make computers insanely fast
Researchers are exploring a new generation of computers that operate using light, or photons, instead of electrical currents.…
Measuring the Entropy of a Double Quantum Dot
November 13, 2025• Physics 18, s147 Researchers have taken a step toward using entropy to probe the quantum…
New Research Helps Narrow the Search for Elusive Neutrino Sources
While the Universe may appear serene and inspiring at first glance, it is actually filled with particles traveling…
For the first time, astronomers observed the first moments of a supernova shock wave
Many cosmic events occur in space and sometimes surprise astronomers. This is the case of these scientists who…
Self-compressed waveform-stable light transients enabling water-window attosecond spectroscopy
We first demonstrate the creation and field-resolved characterization of light transients, focusing on generating sub-cycle pulses. For this…