Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle
The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the…
General relativity could make life possible on planets orbiting white dwarfs
Parameter space showing the effect of GR on eccentricity oscillations due to an exterior planetary companion for a…
John Clarke – Facts – 2025
John ClarkeNobel Prize in Physics 2025 Born: 1942, Cambridge, United Kingdom Affiliation at the time of the award:…
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to 3 scientists for quantum mechanical tunnelling
Scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery…
Internet favors the development of flexible identities among language learners
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A review reveals that the interplay between technology, identity, and languages involves and encourages…
Researchers turn coffee and plastic waste into climate solution
Reactor driving the carbonization of coffee and plastic waste into high-performance carbon. Credit: University of Sharjah Researchers at…
How the Southern Ocean controlled climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide during the lukewarm interglacials
Schematic illustration of Southern Ocean circulation changes before and after the Mid-Brunhes Event (MBE). Credit: Nature Communications (2025).…
Physicists demonstrate first hybrid skyrmion tubes for higher-density quantum computing
Current-induced motion of SyAFM skyrmion tubes. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63759-7 Typically, the charge of electrons is…
the last gallery component takes its place
With the arrival of the last coil termination box on 19 September and its installation three days later,…
Physicists tighten the net on elusive dark matter
“The UCSB Physics Department has a long history of devising searches for dark matter, starting with one of the…
Light-vibration coupling opens new path for future electronics
Scientists have found a way to make atoms dance with light, quite literally. In certain crystals, vibrations called…
Polarons shape the interlayer exciton emission of MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers
Sio, W. H. & Giustino, F. Polarons in two-dimensional atomic crystals. Nat. Phys. 19, 629–636 (2023). Article CAS …