New study explains why some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise
Some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise, such as from ventilation systems, heat pumps, wind turbines and…
A supermassive black hole called RBH-1, weighing at least ten million Suns, appears to have been flung from its galaxy and is now racing through space at nearly 1,000 kilometres per second, leaving a 200,000-light-year wake of newborn stars
A thin streak of gas and young stars trailing a distant galaxy is the wake of a supermassive…
Meet Sabrina Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her, NASA wanted her, but she chose physics
Most children dream of flying a plane. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built one. By the time she was 14,…
‘What we found was striking’: Physicists detect new kind of signal from a black hole’s ‘point of no return’
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Bose–Einstein condensate of ultracold sodium–rubidium molecules with tunable dipolar interactions
Carr, L. D., DeMille, D., Krems, R. V. & Ye, J. Cold and ultracold molecules: science, technology and…
Principles of optics in Fock space for the scalable manipulation of large quantum states
Maxwell, J. C. VIII. A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 155, 459–512…
Millisecond coherence times in gigahertz-frequency mechanical oscillators
Goryachev, M. & Tobar, M. E. Gravitational wave detection with high frequency phonon trapping acoustic cavities. Phys. Rev.…
Physicists created a tiny universe where time emerged without a clock
A physicist at the University of Birmingham has created a laboratory “mini universe” that brings scientists a step…
Where Does Quantum Computing Stand?
Key Takeaways: Quantum technology is seeing very active development, but most commercial offerings remain years away. QED-C represents…
The optics of an OCR increase during an election year
While the choice to hike the Official Cash Rate (OCR) can be justified economically, how these decisions are…
Fractional Fermi Sea: Physicists Discover a New Phase of Matter Beyond Established Theory
Ultracold cesium atoms locked into a hidden, ordered state after being cycled between repulsive and attractive interactions. Credit:…
A British tokamak just came apart after more than 5,000 plasma pulses, a squashed doughnut that hit 100 million degrees, six times hotter than the core of the Sun, held together by magnets pushing seven million ampere turns through a column at 11.8 tesla
KeysQuestions4Explore4 The UK’s fusion ambitions just got a brutally honest reality check — Britain needs 30,000 kilometers of…