Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector
Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…
Distorted honeycomb magnet edges closer to a quantum spin liquid
Most magnets are predictable. Cool them down, and their tiny magnetic moments snap into place like disciplined soldiers.…
Leading quantum physicist You Chenglong joins cutting-edge Chinese research institute
Physicist You Chenglong has left the United States to take up a full-time position in China after working…
Driving Floquet physics with excitonic fields
Lloyd-Hughes, J. et al. The 2021 ultrafast spectroscopic probes of condensed matter roadmap. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 33,…
The Universe’s Most Common Water is a Hot Mess
Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing…
China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Broke a Fusion Barrier That Held for Decades
For the first time, researchers have successfully exceeded the Greenwald limit, a critical barrier in plasma density, without…
Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Win Frontiers of Knowledge Award for “Magic Angle” Discovery » MIT Physics
The duo is recognized for the discovery of “twistronics,” a breakthrough in material science that allows scientists to…
Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes…
Mystery of the Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Solved » Explorersweb
When the James Webb Space Telescope sent back its first images of the cosmos, astronomers were stunned to…
First indirect evidence for primordial monsters – CERN Courier
Collapsing monster Simulation of a primordial monster star giving birth to a quasar – an extremely luminous active…
Physicists Outline Technique to Scale Neutral-Atom Quantum Systems Beyond 100,000 Qubits
Insider Brief Researchers at Columbia University report a metasurface-based optical tweezer platform that provides a realistic path to…
Transport evidence for chiral surface states from three-dimensional Landau bands
The studied samples consist of rectilinear bars carved by FIB machining from a bismuth single crystal (Fig. 2).…