Physics

In a lab in Stuttgart, physicists have quietly pulled off something that once belonged in science fiction. They…

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond.…

A six-year survey covering 669 million galaxies has revealed insight into dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon driving the…

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient…

Stas, P.-J. et al. Robust multi-qubit quantum network node with integrated error detection. Science 378, 557–560 (2022). Article …

Astrophysicists are closer than ever to solving the mystery of what makes up almost 70 percent of the…

Could silicon become the bedrock of quantum computers? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…

Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have shown that quantum entanglement can be…

image: The Dark Matter distribution in the COSMOS field observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and by…

In 2023, China’s ‘electromagnetic sledge’ system became the first large-scale electromagnetic launcher to break the sound barrier. During…

When students learn that Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize, the assumption feels automatic: relativity. The bending of…

In recent years, Nobel Prize–winning physicist James Peebles, one of the main architects of the standard cosmological model,…

In a laboratory, they manage to teleport quantum information between photons born in different crystals, and the technical detail that makes this possible sounds like the internet of the future