MIT quantum breakthrough edges toward room-temp superconductors
Superconductors work like express trains for electricity. Once electric current enters one, it can travel through without resistance…
A Fundamental ‘Constant’ of the Universe May Not Be Constant At All, Study Finds
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that took a bite out of life,…
The Unique Kitchen Appliance Designed By Albert Einstein That No One Ever Used
Bettmann/Getty Images Whether you know him as the…
Einstein might have been wrong about black holes
Black holes are often described as cosmic gluttons, consuming everything that drifts too close — including light itself.…
Fractional quantization in insulators from Hall to Chern
Klitzing, K. V., Dorda, G. & Pepper, M. New method for high-accuracy determination of the fine-structure constant based…
If you fell into a black hole, would you survive? What new research says about spaghettification |
Picture yourself drifting in space, caught in the pull of a black hole. The idea feels like pure…
Strong coupling of a superconducting flux qubit to single bismuth donors
In this work, we couple spins to a highly non-linear circuit with huge current quantum fluctuations18,19,20. This circuit…
First Radio Signal from 3I/ATLAS: Absorption by Hydroxyl Radicals (OH Molecules) | by Avi Loeb | Nov, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe MeerKAT Radio Telescope in South Africa. (Credit: Wikimedia)…
physicist and director-general of CERN
When Herwig Schopper arrived in Ithaca, upstate New York, one Saturday in 1960 to spend a year working…
Dual epitaxial telecom spin-photon interfaces with long-lived coherence
Fiber-integrated Er3+ qubit chip Figure 1 illustrates the schematic of our Er3+ qubit device. The die chip consists of…
Quantum interference and occupation control in high harmonic generation from monolayer WS2
Transition from perturbative to strong-field driven HHG in monolayer WS2 Figure 1a schematically illustrates the electronic processes in monolayer…
High-speed antiferromagnetic domain walls driven by coherent spin waves
Hinzke, D. & Nowak, U. Domain wall motion by the magnonic spin Seebeck effect. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107,…