Ultrafast infrared light pulses trigger rapid ‘breathing’ in thin film
THz-light induced strain and crystalline ordering. Credit: Jakob Gollwitzer et al Cornell Engineering researchers have demonstrated that, by…
New neutrino detector in China is coming online
The JUNO Sphere. Credit: JUNO Collaboration Neutrinos are one of the most enigmatic particles in the standard model.…
New layered material successfully confines terahertz light to the nanoscale
A tunable FEL generates narrowband terahertz radiation, which is focused onto the s-SNOM tip and is backscattered into…
Mapping the universe, faster and with the same accuracy
Two ‘fans’ corresponding to the two main areas DESI has observed, above and below the plane of our…
New laser technique reveals nearly 20 previously hidden states of matter
The quantum world is already full of surprises, but a new discovery has added an entire wing to…
Lasers can melt through extraterrestrial ice efficiently
An ice sample being melted with a laser. Credit: M. Koßagk et al Lasers aren’t just useful for…
The “phantom effect” in physics is finally observed in a lab
A new study reports the first experimental observation of the transverse Thomson effect – a long-hypothesized thermal effect…
First-principles simulations reveal quantum entanglement in molecular polariton dynamics
Credit: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5c00911 This is what fun looks like for a…
Researchers develop promising method to spot low-mass dark matter – news.cgtn.com
Researchers develop promising method to spot low-mass dark matter news.cgtn.comScientists just built a detector that could finally catch dark…
10 years ago, gravitational waves were detected for the first time
It’s officially been 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves. At the time, it had been…
Ultraconfined terahertz phonon polaritons in hafnium dichalcogenides
Li, N. et al. Direct observation of highly confined phonon polaritons in suspended monolayer hexagonal boron nitride. Nat.…
Scientists Have Summoned a Massless Demon Particle
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