Astronomers Detect Record-Breaking Cosmic Laser from 8 Billion Light-Years Away
Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have detected the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever observed,…
Astronomers Reveal the Milky Way Is Floating Inside an Enormous Dark Matter Structure Spanning Millions of Light Years
On clear nights, the band of the Milky Way stretches across the sky like a pale river of…
Scientists just turned light into a remote control for crystals
Scientists at NYU have developed a way to use light to guide how microscopic particles arrange themselves into…
Physics World March 2026 – Physics World
Physics World March 2026 – Physics World Skip to main content Physics World March 2026 This issue of…
A tiny twist creates giant magnetic skyrmions in 2D crystals
In the fast moving field of two dimensional materials, even a slight rotational shift between layers can dramatically…
How fast is the universe actually expanding? Ripples in spacetime could finally solve ‘Hubble tension’
A team of scientists says it’s possible to use tiny ripples in space and time, or gravitational waves,…
Purcell-enhanced two-photon emission from a quantum dot via dark-state biexciton loading
Slusher, R. E., Hollberg, L. W., Yurke, B., Mertz, J. C. & Valley, J. F. Observation of squeezed…
Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: ‘Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe’ – A hard truth about human behavior from the genius scientist
A Quote of the Day usually does one simple thing. It pauses us. It makes us look at…
Quantum internet materializes in Germany due to a 30-kilometer breakthrough
Something once thought too delicate for real cities just survived them. A quiet test in Germany hints that…
Large-scale ion-trap quantum computing systems inch closer to reality
Researchers have achieved a breakthrough towards building scalable quantum computers. The team used cryoelectronics to control ion traps,…
Atomic tweak turns silicon into high-efficiency quantum light source
In the strange world of quantum physics, even the tiniest tweak can unlock outsized rewards. In a new…
For the first time, light mimics a Nobel Prize quantum effect
In the late 1800s, physicists discovered what is now called the Hall effect. It occurs when an electric…