The Schrödinger equation turns 100
Key Insights One hundred years ago, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that rewrote the…
Scientists develop a new way to measure the expansion rate of the universe
For years, cosmologists have argued over a simple question with an awkward answer: How fast is the universe…
Something Mysterious Is Unfolding in the Milky Way’s Magnetic Field, Scientists Reveal
The magnetic field of the Milky Way has long been a subject of mystery, with its crucial role…
Is the Universe a Cosmic Loop? How Einstein’s Bridge Could Explain a Pre-Big Bang World
In a new study published in Classical and Quantum Gravity, researchers have revisited the concept of Einstein-Rosen bridges,…
Entanglement-assisted non-local optical interferometry in a quantum network
Experimental setup The experiment encompasses two labs, each containing one station with an SiV inside a dilution refrigerator…
Physics Is a Conversation
Physicist Sean Carroll leads off this video with this line: I like to say that Einstein is, if…
Field-free full switching of chiral antiferromagnetic order
Nakatsuji, S., Kiyohara, N. & Higo, T. Large anomalous Hall effect in a non-collinear antiferromagnet at room temperature.…
How giant galaxies could form just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang
When the venerable Hubble Space Telescope made its Deep Fields studies of the early Universe, it discovered something…
A cosmic explosion with the force of a billion Suns went unseen – until we caught its echo
Some of the universe’s most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but…
Cavity-altered superconductivity | Nature
Sentef, M. A., Ruggenthaler, M. & Rubio, A. Cavity quantum-electrodynamical polaritonically enhanced electron-phonon coupling and its influence on…
Limitations of probing field-induced response with STM
a-f, A sample of six plane-subtracted STM topographs used for figure 3 in Xing et al.7. Insets to…
A “Cosmic Positioning System” in the Outer Solar System
There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the “Hubble Tension” in cosmology. This feature describes how one…