A metal long thought nonmagnetic changes character when stretched
For years, ruthenium dioxide (RuO₂) has kept physicists confused. Depending on which experiment they looked at, the metallic…
Sketching Temporary Circuits With A Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator
In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavior. In comparison…
World’s First Photonic Time Crystal Can Reshape Light in Trillionths of a Second
A THz electromagnetic wave induces strong, fast temporal modulations that realize a photonic time crystal: a crystal lattice…
Laser–plasma amplification of an ultrabroadband laser pulse to 0.3 TW
Experimental set-up This experimental platform (Extended Data Fig. 1) was specifically designed to propagate an intense, ultrabroadband (>60 nm)…
Congratulations To The Frikkin Laser Winners!
Apparently you all love lasers just as much as we do. We put out a challenge to use,…
Altermagnetic photonic crystals | Nature Physics
Šmejkal, L., Sinova, J. & Jungwirth, T. Emerging research landscape of altermagnetism. Phys. Rev. X 12, 040501 (2022).…
A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all
A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path.Special relativity links space…
Mysterious Milky Way object accelerates protons beyond one quadrillion electron volts
Scientists have conclusively identified a source in the Milky Way that can accelerate protons to some of the…
Australia’s oldest computer could show us how quantum might become a reality
Peter Thorne still regularly thinks about a weekend job he had almost 70 years ago, running a computer…
Mysterious Milky Way object accelerates protons beyond one quadrillion electron volts
Scientists have conclusively identified a source in the Milky Way that can accelerate protons to some of the…
The First Temporal Photonic Crystal Advances Light into a New Dimension
When a team of physicists in Paris fabricated the world’s first temporal photonic crystal, they added a new…
CERN Experiments Detect Signs of the Universe’s Primordial Matter
Collisions between oxygen and neon nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider are revealing signs of quark–gluon plasma, the…