black-hole breakthroughs will ‘only get better’
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) facility, in Hanford, Washington.Credit: IMAGO/Xinhua via Alamy Ten years after the historic…
Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array
Gisin, N., Ribordy, G., Tittel, W. & Zbinden, H. Quantum cryptography. Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 145–195 (2002). Article …
Scientists Finally ‘See’ a Proton Move Through Water, and It Only Took 200 Years
For over two centuries, scientists have known that water transports a positive charge through protons. But they had…
Scientists say there is a 90% chance of witnessing a black hole explosion in next 10 years
According to the theory by Stephen Hawking, black holes emit particles and radiation, which leads to them gradually…
A New Neutrino Detector In China Is Coming Online
Neutrinos are one of the most enigmatic particles in the standard model. The main reason is that they’re…
Graphene just broke a fundamental law of physics
For several decades, a central puzzle in quantum physics has remained unsolved: Could electrons behave like a perfect,…
Physicists Made a Time Crystal We Can Actually See
Of all the eccentricities of the quantum realm, time crystals—atomic arrangements that repeat certain motions over time—might be…
It’s quieter than emptiness — Big-Bang echoes point to a two-billion-light-year hollow
Do you know that the most universally agreed-upon theory about the creation of the cosmos itself remains the…
A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe
A black hole unlike any seen before has been spotted in the early universe. It’s huge and appears…
Extending Spatial Light Modulation into the Ultraviolet
September 11, 2025• Physics 18, s113 An array of tiny spring-loaded mirrors creates intricate patterns of UV light…
Astrophysicists Zero In on Source of Strange Gamma-Ray Signals
Artist’s impression of a MSP binary system. Credit: ESA & Francesco Ferraro (Bologna Astronomical Observatory) Millisecond pulsar binaries…
Scientists Discover Early Universe Magnetic Fields Were 0.02 Nanogauss Using 250,000 Computer Simulations
IN A NUTSHELL 🧲 Scientists discovered that the early universe’s magnetic fields were as weak as those generated…