Prof Peter Higgs Nobel Prize medal donated to Edinburgh University
PA Prof Higgs was a researcher at Edinburgh University in 1964 when he predicted the existence of a…
The Physics of the Northern Lights
Neon lights are glass tubes containing neon or other gases. When an electric current is sent from one…
Ask Ethan: How can we better measure G, the gravitational constant?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Attosecond physics in optical near fields
Experiment We use an amplified erbium fibre oscillator system as the laser source with a 170-fs pulse duration…
Mechanically steered photon upconversion and circularly polarized luminescence in stretchable photonic crystal films
Optimization of upconverted SPC films preparation and UCPL We prepared the BPEA/PtTPBP-loaded upconverted SPC films by using a…
New Research Helps Narrow the Search for Elusive Neutrino Sources
While the Universe may appear serene and inspiring at first glance, it is actually filled with particles traveling…
Could black hole shadows reveal new theories of gravity?
This image, which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) released on March 27, 2024, shows the supermassive black hole…
Wild new “gyromorph” materials could make computers insanely fast
Researchers are exploring a new generation of computers that operate using light, or photons, instead of electrical currents.…
Measuring the Entropy of a Double Quantum Dot
November 13, 2025• Physics 18, s147 Researchers have taken a step toward using entropy to probe the quantum…
Unified model may explain vibrational anomalies in solids
Structural characterizations of prepared materials. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03057-7 Phonons are sound particles or quantized vibrations…
How sound and light act alike—and not—at the smallest scale
The setup of the experiment in the optical lab, with the semiconductor crystal containing the double slits in…
Self-compressed waveform-stable light transients enabling water-window attosecond spectroscopy
We first demonstrate the creation and field-resolved characterization of light transients, focusing on generating sub-cycle pulses. For this…