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Single-shot, reference-less computational wavefront sensing for complex optical fields

March 18, 2026

Hardy, J. W. Adaptive Optics for Astronomical Telescopes https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195090192.001.0001 (Oxford University Press, 1998). Wang, K. et al. Direct…

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‘Doubly charmed’ subatomic particle discovered at Cern

March 18, 2026

A entirely new subatomic particle has been discovered by a team including British researchers at Cern, the nuclear…

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A strange twist in the universe’s oldest light may be bigger than we thought

March 18, 2026

Researchers investigating a mysterious cosmic phenomenon called cosmic birefringence have created a new approach to reduce uncertainty in…

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The Seven-Hour Mass Explosion That Broke the Rules of the Universe

March 18, 2026

GRB 250702B emerged from the top edge of its host galaxy’s dark dust lane (see inset). Credit: NASA,…

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Bose–Hubbard simulator with long-range hopping

March 18, 2026

Combescot, M. & Shiau, S. Y. Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics (Oxford Univ.…

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Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Unlock The Energy of Ocean Waves : ScienceAlert

March 18, 2026

There’s a huge amount of clean energy locked away in ocean waves, if only we could find a…

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Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces 'catastrophic' cuts

March 18, 2026

Those experiments seek to answer some of the biggest questions in science. These include learning how the Universe…

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March 18, 2026

“We always had the money for these projects,” he told me. “I do not understand how we ended…

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Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/M. Markevitch; Optical/Lensing: NASA/STScI, Magellan/U. Arizona/D. Clowe; Lensing map: ESO WFI

March 18, 2026

This is Part 4 of a series on topological defects. Read Parts 1, 2, and 3. The WHAT?…

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Astronomers May Have Seen Colliding Black Holes Trigger a Blaze of Light : ScienceAlert

March 18, 2026

A brief blaze of gamma and X-ray light that lit up Earth telescopes in November 2024 may have…

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Quantum Darwinism: How humans agree on the nature of reality

March 18, 2026

Quantum physics allows particles to exist in many possible states at the same time. But in the reality…

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Origin of strange metallicity in a d-orbital kagome metal

March 18, 2026

In quantum materials, Coulomb interactions can cause two types of effects. In the first, phases with spontaneously broken…

Single-shot, reference-less computational wavefront sensing for complex optical fields

‘Doubly charmed’ subatomic particle discovered at Cern

A strange twist in the universe’s oldest light may be bigger than we thought

The Seven-Hour Mass Explosion That Broke the Rules of the Universe

Bose–Hubbard simulator with long-range hopping

Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Unlock The Energy of Ocean Waves : ScienceAlert

Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts

Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts

Is the Universe Defective? Part 4: Hiding in Plain Darkness

Astronomers May Have Seen Colliding Black Holes Trigger a Blaze of Light : ScienceAlert

Quantum Darwinism: How humans agree on the nature of reality

Origin of strange metallicity in a d-orbital kagome metal