Ultracold cesium atoms challenge rules of physics, refuse to heat up
Imagine shaking a snow globe again and again. You’d expect the flakes to scatter endlessly. However, a team…
90-year-old quantum guitar strings mystery finally explained
Imagine plucking a guitar string. It vibrates, the sound lingers, and then fades away as the energy drains…
Predicting the topological properties of quantum spin liquids using Rydberg atom lattices
The Kagome lattice used in the experiment. The red circle represents the blockade radius Rb = 2.4a set during the…
Does 3I/ATLAS Generate Its Own Light? | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe Hubble Space Telescope of 3I/ATLAS on 21 July…
Scientists stunned by record-breaking, watermelon-shaped nucleus
For the first time in more than thirty years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been…
Using lasers to bring crystal vibrations to their quantum ground state
Schematic of the cavity optomechanical system. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02989-4 Using new techniques, Yale researchers have…
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said…
New co-assembly strategy unlocks robust circularly polarized luminescence across the color spectrum
A universal strategy for creating full-color, highly efficient CPL-active materials through hierarchical chiral supramolecular assemblies. Credit: Science (2025).…
‘Mysterious Giant’ Hints at The First Detection of a Black Hole Trinary : ScienceAlert
A strange signal in the background hum created by a merger between two black holes could be the…
Far Out | Sean M. Carroll, Willa Glickman
As scientists and researchers make sense of some of the major discoveries from the turn of the twenty-first…
Entanglement and the density matrix renormalization group in the generalized Landau paradigm
Dualities We explain here how to obtain the models dual to equation (1) considered in the main text.…
Sweden’s most powerful laser delivers record-short light pulses
The laser system is 11 meters long and generates extremely short laser pulses. Credit: Mattias Pettersson, Umea University…