New Simons Collaboration Explores Black Holes and Strong Gravity
Black holes are some of the most extreme places in the universe. The gravitational pull of these objects…
How we did it and why it’s historic
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A major breakthrough in quantum technology was achieved in October 2024: the first-ever quantum…
Quantum dot technique improves multi-photon state generation
The new approach uses a purely optical technique called stimulated two-photon excitation to generate streams of photons in…
Unexpected Resonances Could Boost NMR’s Potency
Gunnar JeschkeDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland August 11,…
Slowly spinning dark matter halos may explain mysterious ‘little red dots’ in the early universe
Distant galaxies appear scattered across the night sky in this deep field image from the James Webb Space…
Powerful form of quantum interference paves the way for phonon-based technologies
Rendering of a two-dimensional metal (middle layer) intercalated between a layer of graphene (top) and silicon carbide (bottom).…
The Release of Dust from the Surface of 3I/ATLAS Does Not Imply That it is a Comet | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size(Image credit: Nazarii_Neshchernskyi) The fundamental uncertainty about the new…
Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A research paper proposes a fully physically realized model…
Optomechanical control of long-lived bulk acoustic phonons in the quantum regime
The cavity optomechanical system In what follows, we build our cavity optomechanical system around the μHBAR seen in…
Scientists freeze quantum motion without cooling
What are the limits of quantum physics? This is a question that has been researched around the world…
Strongly interacting Hofstadter states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
Hofstadter, D. R. Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetic fields. Phys.…
Milli-Tesla quantization enabled by tuneable Coulomb screening in large-angle twisted graphene
Figure 1a shows one of our large-angle twisted bilayer graphene (LATBG) devices with a twist angle of \(\theta \sim…