Superconducting qubit that lasts for over 1 millisecond is primed for industrial scaling
A Princeton team has reported their new qubit lasts for over 1 millisecond, three times longer than the…
Millisecond lifetimes and coherence times in 2D transmon qubits
Place, A. P. M. et al. New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3…
John Joannopoulos (1947–2025) | Nature Photonics
Authors and Affiliations Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Marin Soljačić Department of Electrical…
US scientists show light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors
Light isn’t just illuminating materials anymore, it’s moving them. Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of…
a new look at magnetic excitations – Physics World
New research reveals how quantum effects in double-exchange ferromagnets drive unexpected magnetic behaviour Iron-based material (Courtesy: iStock/Assistantua) For…
Scientists observe single top quark with W, Z bosons for first time
Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected a phenomenon that happens only every trillion proton collisions,…
Thin-film strontium titanate sets electro-optic performance record at cryogenic temperatures
(a) Thin-film 200-mm strontium titanate (SrTiO3) grown on silicon wafer. (b) Transmission electron microscope image highlighting the crystallinity…
Post Perihelion Data on 3I/ATLAS. Reports from the Minor Planet Center… | by Avi Loeb | Nov, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeTrajectory of 3I/ATLAS with positions of the planets on…
Physicists achieve high precision in measuring strontium atoms using rubidium neighbor
Small clouds of strontium atoms (blue) and rubidium atoms (red) are trapped together. The well-known properties of rubidium…
What’s it like to live inside a void?
The cosmic voids of the universe are empty of matter. But we all know there’s more to the…
Light can reshape atom-thin semiconductors for next-generation optical devices
A team of Rice University researchers and collaborators showed that a two-layer Janus TMD material—molybdenum sulfur selenide stacked…
Picture of universe getting clearer—but much remains unknown
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a…