The World’s Largest Particle Accelerator Is Shutting Down (For Now)
Richard Juilliart/Shutterstock The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the…
Tiny Carbon Rings Enable a New Form of Quantum Control
Matt Swayne With a several-decades long background in journalism and communications, Matt Swayne has worked as a science…
Magnonic spontaneous oscillation induced by parametric pumping
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Schrödinger’s anthill: Quantum entanglement found in a crystal large enough to hold
Quantum phenomena are usually associated with extremely small objects such as individual atoms, molecules, or photons that must…
Topological textures in polar materials
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Incredible new material makes heat programmable
In most materials, the way heat is absorbed and the way it is emitted are inseparable. If a…
A Fusion Startup Lit Bulbs With Electricity Pulled Straight From Plasma
Close-up of Realta’s direct energy converter assembly prototype. Credit: Realta Fusion/UW-Madison A fusion company has made a few…
Visualization of the Zhang–Rice singlet, electronic molecules and Cooper pair formation in a cuprate superconductor
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Electro-optic comb-empowered measurement of the dynamic frequency of a laser
Qiao, S. et al. Ultra-highly sensitive dual gases detection based on photoacoustic spectroscopy by exploiting a long-wave, high-power,…
We tend to think of the universe as roughly uniform, with galaxies scattered in every direction — but the Boötes Void, discovered in 1981 during a redshift survey, is a vast cosmic underdensity up to 330 million light-years across, containing only a few dozen known galaxies where thousands might otherwise be expected
On the scale of the whole observable universe, matter is assumed to be spread out fairly evenly: enough…
A physicist built a ‘mini-universe’ out of ultracold atoms and watched time being born inside it.
For the first time, a physicist has experimentally watched time emerge from within an isolated quantum system —…
Physicists Just Achieved Superconductivity at Highest Temperature Yet – Under Normal Pressure
Superconductive materials could revolutionize electronics – if only they weren’t so fussy. Coaxing materials into this state, where…