‘Eye of Sauron’ blazar is source of a powerful cosmic jet
The Eye of Sauron is a striking image of the plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240, seen…
Optical signatures of interlayer electron coherence in a bilayer semiconductor
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct-gap semiconductors that can host optically bright excitons corresponding to Coulomb-bound electron–hole pairs. Due…
A lithography-free approach to polaritonic Luneburg lenses
Gradient indices from dielectric environment engineering The propagation of polaritons is significantly influenced by the surrounding dielectric environment,…
Watching Electron Dynamics Shape Chemical Reactions
Haiwang YongDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, US August 20, 2025•…
Laser-driven implosion could produce megatesla magnetic fields – Physics World
Laser-driven implosion could produce megatesla magnetic fields – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics…
Falling water forms beautiful fluted films
Using hollow tubes of varying diameters and high-speed imaging, KAUST researchers captured the hidden shapes of the thin…
Realization of a doped quantum antiferromagnet in a Rydberg tweezer array
Lee, P. A., Nagaosa, N. & Wen, X.-G. Doping a Mott insulator: physics of high-temperature superconductivity. Rev. Mod.…
Experimental determination of partial charges with electron diffraction
Chemical reagents The chemical reagents used in the synthesis experiments include tyrosine (C9H11NO3, 99.0 wt%, Sigma-Aldrich), histidine (C6H9N3O2, 99.0 wt%,…
Streams of gas might lead to the rapid formation of high-mass stars
The dust emission of the high-mass star forming region G336.018-00.827 ALMA1 at radio wavelengths. The star symbol indicates…
How hot can you make a solid before it melts? – Physics World
How hot can you make a solid before it melts? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover…
Simple additive method leads to record-setting perovskite laser performance
Suppressing Auger recombination for high-performance perovskite VCSELs. Credit: Xingliang Dai / Zhejiang University For years, engineers have sought…
A New Model for Early Black Hole Formation Could Revolutionize Cosmologicy
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) commenced operations, it provided the first views of the period known…