Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
Researchers validate measurement-protection quantum key distribution
A QKD experimental setup based on measurement protection to experimentally verify the measurement protection theory. Credit: Electronics and…
Tabletop particle accelerator could transform medicine and materials science
A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table,…
Diverse particles form identical geometric patterns when confined, model reveals
The researchers performed experiments with floating magnets, ball bearings, and soap bubbles. Credit: P. D. S. de Lima…
Scientists make dark excitons 300,000x brighter for quantum tech
Researchers at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas at Austin have achieved…
Physics – Quantum Scars Unmasked
November 12, 2025• Physics 18, s146 A new approach finds useful patterns called quantum scars in the complex…
The prize at the end of the quantum tunnel
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis “for…
Moving magnetic domain walls with sound alone
The device configuration used for the main experiment is sketched in Fig. 1a. The interdigital transducers (IDT) are deposited…
Phase Transition Proceeds Slowly, Then All at Once
November 12, 2025• Physics 18, s148 Adding extra atoms between sheets of PdSe2 doesn’t affect the material’s layered…
Material system enhances superconducting qubits
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 12 November 2025 In the development of large-scale quantum processors, material improvements yield rapid progress because…
Ultrafast electron diffraction captures atomic layers twisting in response to light
Experimental scheme and representative diffraction images. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09707-3 A pulse of light sets the tempo…
I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket
How’s this for an academic dream team? Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman. The three physicists and…