First device based on ‘optical thermodynamics’ can route light without switches
Credit: Yunxuan Wei at USC. A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer…
Study shows how to avoid that
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An analysis of forest-based projects funded through the sale of carbon credits shows that…
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology
Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation promises to allow…
Analyses of moon’s largest impact crater reveal unexpected insights into its tumultuous past
The South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the far side of the moon formed in a southward impact (toward…
Chaos controlled and disorder driven phase transitions induced by breaking permutation symmetry
Solvable case of \(p=0\), generic initial coherent states It is both instructive and interesting to first examine the…
In 1927, A Physicist Conducted A Mass Psychic Experiment Involving 25,000 People
In 1927, a respected physicist conducted one of the largest experiments into telepathy the world has ever undertaken,…
Antarctic Ocean of the last ice age reveals how a critical process of CO₂ storage may slow again
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and,…
Programmable optical chip merges photons to change color
Illustration of the working principle and capabilities of a programmable nonlinear waveguide. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09620-9 Cornell…
Physicists improve precision of atomic clocks by reducing quantum noise
The new method, which the researchers dub “global phase spectroscopy,” offers a way to keep an atomic clock’s…
Einstein’s violin and the scholar who made it his obsession
Albert Einstein said that if he had not been a physicist, he would have been a musician. “Most…
Scientists Reveal What a Single Photon Really Looks Like for the First Time
A visualization of a photon made by the authors of the new study. Credit: Benjamin Yuen When we…
Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang : ScienceAlert
If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own…