What appeared to be a normal galaxy concealed a ring of light
It is not every day that a nearby, cataloged galaxy reveals a secret hiding in plain sight. A…
Astronomers See Inside The Core of a Dying Star For the First Time, Confirm How Heavy Atoms Are Made
An illustration of the ‘extremely stripped’ supernova 2021yfj. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure…
What Came Before the Big Bang? New Study Says ‘Numerical Relativity’ Could Unlock Cosmology’s Biggest Mysteries
It is one of cosmology’s most perplexing questions: what happened before the Big Bang? Although the question has…
Single-shot readout of the nuclear spin of an on-surface atom
Single-shot readout We investigate individual Ti atoms on the oxygen binding site of an MgO/Ag(100) substrate (see “Methods”),…
What came before the Big Bang remains a mystery but new tools may help
What came before the Big Bang remains a mystery but new tools may help by Sophie Jenkins London,…
Latest Data Rule Out a Leading Explanation of a Neutrino Anomaly
August 21, 2025• Physics 18, s115 The MicroBooNE experiment’s five-year dataset has shown that an unpredicted neutrino-flavor oscillation…
Strong-interaction-driven quadrupolar-to-dipolar exciton transitions in a trilayer moiré superlattice
Wang, G. et al. Colloquium: excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides. Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 021001 (2018).…
New Device for Detecting Lightweight Dark Matter
August 20, 2025• Physics 18, s104 Superconducting sensors can detect single low-energy photons. Researchers have now used this…
Néel spin-orbit torque in antiferromagnetic quantum spin and anomalous Hall insulators
Formalism We extend the Kane-Mele model by including a collinear AFM order which is exchange coupled to the…
Exoplanets suffering from a plague of dark matter could turn into black holes – Physics World
Exoplanets suffering from a plague of dark matter could turn into black holes – Physics World Skip to…
Entangled clocks may reveal where quantum physics and gravity meet
One of the deepest puzzles in modern science is how quantum mechanics and general relativity — the two…
Universal quantum gate set for Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill logical qubits
GKP code Here we give some background on GKP codes, highlighting some of the more salient features in…