7 Weird Space Phenomena That Only Make Sense if Dark Matter Exists
Dark matter is the invisible stuff making up around 85% of the universe’s mass. Like its name, dark…
Scientists Just Discovered Cosmic Rays Inside a Mysterious Cloud for the First Time
Astronomers have made a historic discovery by directly detecting cosmic rays deep inside a dense, starless molecular cloud.…
Heralded high-dimensional photon–photon quantum gate
Vertesi, T., Pironio, S. & Brunner, N. Closing the detection loophole in Bell experiments using qudits. Phys. Rev.…
Physics cuts put livelihoods, investment and reputation at risk
Cutting the UK out of the Electron-Ion Collider project will damage science, says Daria Sokhan On the last…
Five ways quantum technology could shape everyday life
The unveiling by IBM of two new quantum supercomputers and Denmark’s plans to develop “the world’s most powerful…
How Ghana helped secure UN recognition for quantum science
play videoMichele Dougherty (behind mic) is President of the Institute of Physics in UK Ghana took centre stage…
One image tracks the same cosmic object across space and time. It’s all down to a strange quirk of physics
The hottest topic in astronomy is what exactly the little red dots (LRDs) hiding in JWST images really…
A simple discovery is shaking the foundations of spintronics
One of the most striking findings in spintronics is unusual magnetoresistance (UMR). In this effect, the electrical resistance…
In a first, US scientists turn exciton superfluids into supersolids
In a first, scientists at Columbia University in New York and the University of Texas in Austin turned…
46 years ago, Carl Sagan beautifully explained the fourth dimension using a sliced apple
How do you explain the concept of a fourth dimension to humans who are only able to see…
Physicists discover what controls the speed of quantum time
“The concept of time has troubled philosophers and physicists for thousands of years, and the advent of quantum…
Watch a Man Get Launched Off a Truck at 50 MPH, for Science
You’ll sometimes hear scientists say that the most exciting thing in science is a discrepancy between a theory’s…