Luis Walter Alvarez’s eclectic career
Luis Walter Alvarez’s career was marked by two explosions. The first was one the physicist enabled: a plutonium…
Energy-efficient ultracompact laser reduces light loss in all directions
The chip with the hexagon-shaped laser cavities. Credit: NTU Singapore An international team of scientists led by Nanyang…
Astronomers Capture the 'Eye of Sauron' Billions of Light Years Away and It Might Be the Most Powerful Particle Accelerator Ever Found – ZME Science
Astronomers Capture the ‘Eye of Sauron’ Billions of Light Years Away and It Might Be the Most Powerful…
Scientists achieve first observation of phonon angular momentum in chiral crystals
The phonon AM-induced mechanical rotation and torque. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02952-3 In a new study published…
The cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist — 66-billion-sun monster breaks the rules
To a lot of enthusiasts, the figure 66 billion might seem out of reach, but for seasoned astronomers,…
Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere
Light and lifting The researchers then built a few sheets of nanocardboard to test the output of their…
Simultaneous Visible Spectrophotometry Of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS With Seimei/TriCCS
Reflectance spectrum of 3I/ATLAS. Also, Mahlke templates of S-, D- and Z-type asteroids are shown (Mahlke et al.…
An impossible signal detected in the vacuum of the universe—a discovery that could rewrite the laws of physics, according to astronomers
A mystery signal in space has shocked scientists, what could have been? Imagine listening to the universe, yes,…
Early galaxies—or something else? Webb uncovers 300 unusually bright objects
Graphic showing the mysterious objects in the universe that the University of Missouri researchers identified.in their study. Credit:…
The man behind famous quantum physics experiment
The famous cat experiment in 1935 of the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger became one of the most iconic…
Supermassive Black Hole Caught in The Act of Switching on : ScienceAlert
A recent discovery by a team of astronomers centres on a galaxy cluster called CHIPS 1911+4455, located an…
The first experimental realization of quantum optical skyrmions in a semiconductor QED system
Single-photon skyrmions emitted from a QD coupled to a Gaussian microcavity. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02973-y Skyrmions…