Einstein’s Gravity Just Passed a Strange New Quantum Test
A new experiment found that a falling quantum wave behaves just as Einstein’s equivalence principle predicts. The result…
Hawking: His Life and Work by Graham Farmelo: 4-star review
Eight years have passed since the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking died, aged 76, of complications caused by motor…
Maid service? Cleaners? It’s no wonder today’s students aren’t self-sufficient
Thirty years ago this month, I was packed off to boarding school. I arrived with a trunk, a…
The Richest 10% Cause up to $5.7 Trillion in Environmental Damage Each Year
A new analysis estimates that the world’s highest-consuming 10% generate trillions of dollars in environmental damage each year…
Scientists Uncover Cause of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Solving Decades-Old Mystery
Researchers have identified a distinct subgroup of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients whose condition appears to be driven…
Physicists Create a New Kind of Schrödinger’s Cat State From Exotic Quantum Building Blocks
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
Osteoarthritis may be one disease after all, Oxford study finds
Largest-ever analysis of knee osteoarthritis challenges decades of thinking and could accelerate the hunt for effective therapies. If…
HIV breakthrough removes need for daily pill
HIV patients can be drug-free for up to two years under a treatment that ends the need for…
Scientists build intense light beams using ‘Einstein’s flying mirror’
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast in the UK has demonstrated…
Quantum Breakthrough Turns Simple Forces Into Powerful New Interactions
Experimental trapped-ion setup used to generate the family of squeezed states. The ion is confined between electrode structures…
Scientists Unlock Elusive Quantum Effect Long Considered Theoretical in Breakthrough Experiment
A once-theoretical quantum interaction has been achieved in a breakthrough laboratory experiment by University of Oxford researchers, opening…
Scientists Discover Path to ‘Extreme Light Intensities’ That Could Enable Ultra-Powerful Laser Weapons and Advanced Tech
An international team of physicists has announced a “significant advance” in laser science that offers engineers a practical…