Dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using a flying focus
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Advancing the search for technosignatures
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Quantum Mechanics May Not Need Imaginary Numbers After All
Quantum mechanics has long relied on complex numbers to describe the strange behavior of particles, from tunneling to…
Physicists finally build a quantum material predicted more than a decade ago
Physicists from the University of Jyväskylä and Aalto University in Finland have successfully created a two dimensional topological…
Non-gravitational acceleration indicative of cometary activity of near-Earth object
Orbital fit The orbital solution was estimated through a least-squares fit52 to the available optical and radar astrometry.…
An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet
This final measured value came in incredibly close to Einstein’s general relativity predictions, carrying a tiny margin of…
Force-based reading and writing of individual single-atom magnets
Herein, we utilize holmium (Ho) adatoms on MgO as single-atom magnet, a system that is regarded as a…
Trying to break a photon would create a quantum mess
electron: A negatively charged particle, usually found orbiting the outer regions of an atom; also, the carrier of…
Physicist Explains How to “Bend it Like Beckham”
It contributed to soccer legend David Beckham’s record number of goals on direct free kicks, and entered popular…
Scientists achieve the impossible by creating matter from empty space
Something has been lurking in empty space, and for the first time, physicists may have caught it leaving…
Magnetic quantum material enables one-way electrical transport
Scientists at Penn State and Saint Louis University have demonstrated that a magnetic quantum material can naturally produce…
Meet Sabrina Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her, NASA wanted her, but she chose physics
Most children dream of flying a plane. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built one. By the time she was 14,…