Is the Universe Made of Math? Part 2: The Minimalist Universe
This is Part 2 in a series on the mathematical universe hypothesis. Check out Part 1. Like, it…
A New Study Finds a Subtle Dance Between Dark Matter and Neutrinos
Time again for a tale of things dark and mysterious. A tale of dark matter. It’s a well-told…
A single equation lets classical physics decode ‘quantum’ light
Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper…
The Dawn Of Quantum Advantage
Standing room only as IBM’s Borja Peropadre lays out the roadmap to quantum advantage, and why 2026 could…
Seeing Sound With A Laser
You can hear sound, of course, but what if you could see it with a laser? That’s what…
He Finished High School at Age 8, Earned a PhD in Quantum Physics at 15, Now Wants to Build AI-Enhanced “Superhumans”
A 15-year-old doctoral graduate is not, in itself, a scientific development. It is a human milestone, occasionally publicised,…
Einstein Was Wrong? Quantum Experiments Just Settled a 100-Year Debate
The experiments, conducted independently by teams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Science…
Two black holes caught orbiting each other for the first time in groundbreaking image
For the first time in history, astronomers have captured a direct image of black holes locked in orbit…
Chinese tokamak achieves progress in high-density operation
Experiments at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have confirmed the existence of “a density-free region” of the tokamak,…
The Milky Way’s Black Hole Is Quiet Now, But Its Recent Past Was Far More Active
Black holes are objects so dense that they warp space time to an extreme degree. They may be…
Physicists Engineer a Perfect Conductor from Ultracold Atoms
Researchers at TU Wien have made a breakthrough by creating a quantum system that allows energy and momentum…
Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei, China.Credit: Zhang Yazi/China News Service/VCG via…