Century-old turbulence theory confirmed in bubble swarm experiments
An international team of scientists has successfully shown that swarms of rising bubbles create turbulence that behaves exactly…
Why did Cosmic Noon galaxies emit so many cosmic rays?
The background image is the COSMOS field observed with the South African MeerKAT radio array. An artistic illustration…
X-ray flashes reveal how electron-hole pairs tug at atoms inside quantum dots
Johan Bielecki at the “Single Particles Biomolecules and Clusters/Serial Femtosecond Crystallography” (SPB/SFX) instrument of European XFEL, where the…
Physics – Skyrmions as Active Matter
August 18, 2025• Physics 18, 146 Pairs of skyrmions—tiny whirlpools that emerge in some magnetic materials—might be able…
Evidence of “negative time” observed in quantum experiments
Scientists just measured something that sounds impossible. When light passes through atoms, it can spend what appears to…
Engineers create new class of quantum sensors to detect faint molecular vibrations
Principle of quantum vibropolaritonic sensing. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady7670 A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has…
2025 One Hertz Challenge: Timekeeping At One Becquerel
The Becquerel (Bq) is an SI unit of radioactivity: one becquerel is equivalent to one radioactive decay per…
Mysterious Radio Bursts Unveil Hidden Cosmic Matter Between Galaxies
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that unveils one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: the elusive ordinary matter…
Strange new shapes may rewrite the laws of physics
How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the…
Elegant theory predicts the chaos created by bubbles
High-speed cameras capture swarms of bubbles rising through an LED-illuminated water column, revealing the chaotic flow patterns of…
Noncollinear harmonic spectroscopy reveals crossover of strong-field effects
Figure 1a illustrates the generation of ultrahigh order wave-mixing photons resulting from the superposition of an intense fundamental field…
Quasicrystals Spill Secrets of Their Formation
“That’s just freaking awesome. It’s a really clever thing,” Glotzer said. “Until now, no one has ever successfully…