Spiral Arm Motion Solves Exoplanet Formation Mystery
There are plenty of exoplanets scattered throughout the galaxy, so it would stand to reason there are also…
Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target – Physics World
Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics World Copyright…
Physicists Shatter Quantum Computing Record
In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom,…
Multimode phonon-polaritons in lead-halide perovskites in the ultrastrong coupling regime
We fabricated an array of nanoslots (w = 950 nm) on quartz substrates with seven different lengths (l = 30, 40,…
Large moiré superstructure of stacked incommensurate charge density waves
Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018). Article CAS PubMed Google…
Setting Bounds On SETI – Universe Today
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a data scale problem. There are just too many places to…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows “Extreme Negative Polarization”. What Does That Mean?
A team of astronomers have presented the first polarimetric observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, finding that it has…
What Lies Within? New Image From a Mysterious Galaxy Asks Big Questions
A new image of galaxy OJ 287 reveals for the first time the sharply curved, ribbon-like structure of…
Scientists may be closing in on dark matter’s true identity
Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our…
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat…
Magnetic imaging under high pressure with a spin-based quantum sensor integrated in a van der Waals heterostructure
Principle of the experiment We start by studying how the optical and spin properties of \({{{\rm{V}}}}_{{{\rm{B}}}}^{-}\) centers in…
Observation of quantized vortex in atomic Bose–Einstein condensate at Dirac point with emergent spin–orbit coupling
Lv, B. Q., Qian, T. & Ding, H. Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals. Rev. Mod. Phys. 93,…