A strange twist in the universe’s oldest light may be bigger than we thought
Researchers investigating a mysterious cosmic phenomenon called cosmic birefringence have created a new approach to reduce uncertainty in…
Bose–Hubbard simulator with long-range hopping
Combescot, M. & Shiau, S. Y. Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics (Oxford Univ.…
The Seven-Hour Mass Explosion That Broke the Rules of the Universe
GRB 250702B emerged from the top edge of its host galaxy’s dark dust lane (see inset). Credit: NASA,…
CERN Discovers New Particle After Upgrading Large Hadron Collider : ScienceAlert
The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world’s most…
Scientists Figured Out How to Create Glass That Pushes the Boundaries of Physics
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Since 1948, scientists have wondered: If you could cool…
These UH professors broke a record for superconductivity. They say it could change how we transmit energy – Houston Public Media
University of Houston/Provided Professors Liangzi Deng, right, and Paul Ching-Wu Chu developed a pressure-quench protocol to stabilize high-pressure…
Higgs Boson was UK triumph, but British physics faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts
Those experiments seek to answer some of the biggest questions in science. These include learning how the Universe…
Scientists May Have Figured Out How to Unlock The Energy of Ocean Waves : ScienceAlert
There’s a huge amount of clean energy locked away in ocean waves, if only we could find a…
Is the Universe Defective? Part 4: Hiding in Plain Darkness
This is Part 4 of a series on topological defects. Read Parts 1, 2, and 3. The WHAT?…
Astronomers May Have Seen Colliding Black Holes Trigger a Blaze of Light : ScienceAlert
A brief blaze of gamma and X-ray light that lit up Earth telescopes in November 2024 may have…
Quantum Darwinism: How humans agree on the nature of reality
Quantum physics allows particles to exist in many possible states at the same time. But in the reality…
Sir Anthony Leggett obituary | Physics
The launch in the 1950s of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, played an unexpected but important role…