Late physicist’s Nobel Prize medal donated to university where he had key idea
The late Professor Peter Higgs has gifted his Nobel Prize medal to the university where he proposed a…
Could black hole shadows reveal new theories of gravity?
This image, which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) released on March 27, 2024, shows the supermassive black hole…
Unified model may explain vibrational anomalies in solids
Structural characterizations of prepared materials. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03057-7 Phonons are sound particles or quantized vibrations…
Wild new “gyromorph” materials could make computers insanely fast
Researchers are exploring a new generation of computers that operate using light, or photons, instead of electrical currents.…
How sound and light act alike—and not—at the smallest scale
The setup of the experiment in the optical lab, with the semiconductor crystal containing the double slits in…
Measuring the Entropy of a Double Quantum Dot
November 13, 2025• Physics 18, s147 Researchers have taken a step toward using entropy to probe the quantum…
New Research Helps Narrow the Search for Elusive Neutrino Sources
While the Universe may appear serene and inspiring at first glance, it is actually filled with particles traveling…
First high-precision measurement of potential dynamics
Variation of beam shape inside the multistage accelerator. (a) Beam trajectory at low beam current and (b) beam…
Self-compressed waveform-stable light transients enabling water-window attosecond spectroscopy
We first demonstrate the creation and field-resolved characterization of light transients, focusing on generating sub-cycle pulses. For this…
For the first time, astronomers observed the first moments of a supernova shock wave
Many cosmic events occur in space and sometimes surprise astronomers. This is the case of these scientists who…
Heavy atomic nuclei are not as symmetric as previously thought, physicists find
Until now, physicists thought that all heavy nuclei deformed from spheres are elongated in one direction like rugby…
Musically Inspired Time-Rondeau Crystal Breakthrough Promises Quantum Technology That Stores Data Within Time Itself
Researchers at UC Berkeley report the first observation of a time-rondeau crystal, an unusual phase of matter in…