A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves
Current gravitational wave observatories aren’t sensitive enough to capture the gravitational waves of binary stars. They can only…
Astronomers confirm Einstein’s gravity by viewing light from behind a supermassive black hole
Astronomers detected delayed X-ray flashes consistent with light reflected from the far side of an accretion disk and…
In 1879, Edwin Hall discovered an electrical effect thought to need a perpendicular magnetic field; 147 years later, scientists have shown it can work with the field in-plane
An atomic force microscopy scan of a nanometer-sized device developed by Carnegie Mellon scientists that demonstrates a new…
Lens Flare and Modern Optical Physics
A bare, uncoated air-to-glass surface sends roughly 4 percent of the light striking it back the way it…
Woster: When a high school physics story sticks for life – Mitchell Republic
Back in high school, probably in a physics class although I can’t be certain, Howard Elrod told us…
AI predicts two new superconducting materials—and moves us closer to zero-loss energy
AI predicts two new superconducting materials—and moves us closer to zero-loss energy – Futura-Sciences September 5, 2026 3…
Breakthrough Quantum Test Resolves a Major Cosmic Mystery
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that transcended realms, switched sexes, went south,…
Chinese-German team builds ultra-sensitive ‘floating compass’ to hunt dark matter
Chinese researchers have developed a table-top magnetic sensor that operates at room temperature and can spot magnetic signals…
Scientists Push Molecules on a Surface to the Ultimate Quantum Limit
Artistic representation of an optically excited molecule on a surface of a crystal. Credit: MPL, Alexey Shkarin An…
She was 18 when she questioned quantum computing’s big promise, Ewin Tang’s breakthrough changed how scientists see quantum advantage
Ewin Tang was only 18 when her research challenged a widely held belief about the power of quantum…
Graphene superconductivity switched off, proving electrons drive it
Researchers have completely switched off superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by weakening interactions between electrons, providing strong evidence that…
Brian Gaucher (ERVA): Why engineering, not physics, now limits quantum progress
Yuval Boger interviews Brian Gaucher, an experienced engineer and IBM veteran who co-chaired ERVA’s report Engineering Research to…