Physicists Shatter Quantum Computing Record
In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom,…
Criticality in Nature’s Strongest Force
September 29, 2025• Physics 18, 164 Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider give the first hints of…
Multimode phonon-polaritons in lead-halide perovskites in the ultrastrong coupling regime
We fabricated an array of nanoslots (w = 950 nm) on quartz substrates with seven different lengths (l = 30, 40,…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Shows “Extreme Negative Polarization”. What Does That Mean?
A team of astronomers have presented the first polarimetric observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, finding that it has…
What Lies Within? New Image From a Mysterious Galaxy Asks Big Questions
A new image of galaxy OJ 287 reveals for the first time the sharply curved, ribbon-like structure of…
Scientists may be closing in on dark matter’s true identity
Determining the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our…
A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness
If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat…
Setting Bounds On SETI – Universe Today
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a data scale problem. There are just too many places to…
Mechanically liberating polarization bubbles in van der Waals ferroelectrics
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Dynamical dark energy in light of the DESI DR2 baryonic acoustic oscillations measurements
Efstathiou, G., Sutherland, W. J. & Maddox, S. J. The cosmological constant and cold dark matter. Nature 348,…
Deep Underground, the World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector is Narrowing the Hunt for Elusive ‘WIMPs’
Closing in on the mysterious nature of dark matter, experiments conducted in a deep underground cavern are helping…
Impact of low-energy spin fluctuations on the strange metal in a cuprate superconductor
Doiron-Leyraud, N. et al. Correlation between linear resistivity and Tc in the Bechgaard salts and the pnictide superconductor…