World’s first plasma lens keeps 80% of attosecond light power
Attoseconds, the billionths of a billionth of a second, are the shortest flashes of light ever created. Now,…
Nearby pulsar offers insights into emission physics near the death line
Pulse stacks of PSR J2129+4119 observed on September 29, 2024, showing three distinct behaviors: steady drifting (left), intermittent…
FSU physicists discover new state of matter in electrons, platform to study quantum phenomena
From left, researchers Cyprian Lewandowski, Aman Kumar and Hitesh Changlani. (Devin Bittner/FSU College of Arts and Sciences) Electricity…
A long, bumpy caterpillar-like wormhole may connect two black holes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole…
Breakthrough links magnetism and electricity for faster tech
Engineers at the University of Delaware have uncovered a new way to connect magnetic and electric forces in…
Plasma lens can focus attosecond pulses across different ranges of XUV light
a, An attosecond pulse enters a capillary, where a strong electrical pulse generates a hydrogen plasma. As the…
Chasing and splashing molecules create resilient order from apparent chaos, study shows
Non-reciprocal interactions drive large-scale collective motion, where one species chases the other forming spatiotemporal patterns. Credit: Max Planck…
On-chip quantum interference of indistinguishable single photons from integrated independent molecules
Pelucchi, E. et al. The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies. Nat. Rev. Phys.…
Zeroing In on Zero-Point Motion Inside a Crystal
November 5, 2025• Physics 18, 178 A nanocrystal cooled to near absolute zero produces an unexpected light emission,…
Thick Dust Can’t Stop Euclid From Doing Its Job
Astronomy would be a lot easier if there were no clouds of gas and dust in space. There’d…
Caltech’s Pioneering Quantum Hub Celebrates 25 Years
In September 2000, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) was born (albeit with a different name,…
Is China’s ‘God particle’ quest over? World’s largest collider project may be dropped
The quest to understand the “God particle” may have just hit a wall in China. An ambitious multibillion-dollar…