Laser strums atoms trillions of times in search for better computers
A scientist works on the MID instrument that researchers used in a new study to ‘see’ atoms vibrated…
Feedback from Young Stars Influences Galaxy Evolution
When you look at the Milky Way stretching across the sky, it shows the result of billions of…
Listening to the One Place That Swallows Everything
How do you study a place that lets nothing escape? The event horizon of a black hole is…
In 2020, something near the centre of the Milky Way switched on and off six times in radio waves, then disappeared from every follow-up search in X-rays and infrared — leaving astronomers with only the name ASKAP J173608.2−321635 and the possibility of an entirely new kind of object.
ASKAP J173608.2-321635 is not a name built for memory. It is a coordinate label, the kind astronomers use…
A superconductivity record that stood for 30 years has been broken
For more than 30 years, one number stood as a stubborn barrier in superconductivity research: 133 kelvin, or…
Time may be an illusion derived from quantum entanglement
Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker…
David Gross, Nobel Prize winner in physics: Humanity has a “very small” chance of surviving another 50 years
Some lines make you pause. Others demand a second reading. David Gross’s words belong firmly in that latter…
Wormholes may enable time travel, astrophysicists find
A ring in space, at least on paper, can do something a black hole cannot. It can connect…
Expert breaks down the physics behind the World Cup
Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. An expert…
Spatiotemporal shaping of broadband helical light pulses at relativistic intensities
Forbes, A., de Oliveira, M. & Dennis, M. R. Structured light. Nat. Photon. 15, 253–262 (2021). Article ADS …
Europe’s First TES Spectrometer Makes Previously Impossible X-Ray Experiments Possible
The superconducting sensors need a temperature below 25 milli Kelvin. This is achieved by using a He4-He3 dilution…
We tend to think quantum tunnelling is a subatomic curiosity, but in 1984 and 1985 physicists at UC Berkeley showed that a superconducting electrical circuit big enough to hold in your hand could tunnel from one state to another — a discovery that won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Quantum tunnelling is usually introduced through the smallest things physics can describe: an alpha particle escaping a nucleus,…