🔭 A mapping of supermassive black holes near merger
Detecting supermassive black holes just before their merger would lead to significant advances in astrophysics. To achieve this,…
Quantum tech breakthrough: China’s double-photon device breaks efficiency ceiling
Chinese scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in quantum optics, creating a tiny device that spits out pairs…
Physicists finally see strange magnetic vortices predicted 50 years ago
Materials can behave in surprising ways when they are thinned down layer by layer until they are only…
One-in-10-billion particle decay event spotted by scientists at CERN
Researchers at CERN have just upgraded their understanding on one of the rarest particle processes ever observed, by…
Newly discovered ripples in spacetime put Einstein’s general relativity to the test
When black holes collide, the crash generates ripples in the fabric of spacetime—gravitational waves. These distortions travel far…
It’s Hard Like a Diamond But Looks Like a Liquid
An ideal glass (left) compared to a conventional glass (right). In the ideal glass, all the particles are…
Einstein vs Bohr: Why Einstein’s “God Does Not Play Dice” Quote Still Shapes Modern Physics: Quote of the day by Einstein: “God does not play dice with the universe.” Why Einstein wrote to Bohr, “Not often in life has a human being caused me such joy by his mere presence” — opposites who respected each other
Quote of the Day by Einstein: The Einstein-Bohr debate was fundamentally about the nature of reality at the…
High-field triplet superconductivity in a transition metal dichalcogenide superlattice
Stewart, G. Heavy-fermion systems. Rev. Mod. Phys. 56, 755 (1984). Article ADS Google Scholar Klemm, R. A. Layered…
Galactic rotation and unifying relativity with quantum physics.
First off. I am not a professional physicist. You should assume anything I write here will be wrong,…
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IBM scientists unveil the first ever ‘half-Möbius’ molecule, with the help of quantum computing
March 5, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm IBM scientists unveil the first ever “half-Möbius”…
Physicists mathematically create the first ‘ideal glass’
image: Eric Corwin, a physicist at the University of Oregon view more Credit: University of Oregon Scientists led…