Narrow-linewidth laser on a chip sets new standard for frequency purity
Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady8963 A record-breaking development in laser technology could help support the development of…
How Canada became a leader in quantum tech, one of the most promising and potentially terrifying technologies of the future
Allen Lau made his name building the online fiction platform Wattpad. Now his Toronto venture capital firm, Two…
Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of excitons
From left, Zhaohan Jiang, a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering, and Matthias Florian, a research investigator…
US team sees tiny spinning waves called magnons moving in magnets
A research team has achieved the first direct observation of magnon spin currents, a critical development for the…
Astrophysicists Zero In on Source of Strange Gamma-Ray Signals
Artist’s impression of a MSP binary system. Credit: ESA & Francesco Ferraro (Bologna Astronomical Observatory) Millisecond pulsar binaries…
Pinning down protons in water—a basic science success story
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The movement of protons through electrically charged water is one of the most fundamental…
Physicists have created a new ‘time crystal’—it won’t power a time machine but could have many other uses | CU Boulder Today
Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all…
New work shows fluid in a curved pipe can undergo discontinuous transition
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Turbulence is everywhere, yet much about the nature of turbulence remains unknown. During the…
America’s Most Powerful Laser Fires Its First 2-Petawatt Shot
A view through the titanium-sapphire crystal that helps to transfer power into ZEUS’s laser pulses. At two petawatts,…
Proposed approach could bridge gap between general relativity and quantum mechanics
A circulating fluxon–antifluxon pair in coupled annular Josephson junctions behaves as a detector. The pair decays due to…
Scientists Discover Early Universe Magnetic Fields Were 0.02 Nanogauss Using 250,000 Computer Simulations
IN A NUTSHELL 🧲 Scientists discovered that the early universe’s magnetic fields were as weak as those generated…
Astronomers Just Saw a Gamma-Ray Explosion Defy All Known Space Logic : ScienceAlert
A giant explosion that lit up the sky didn’t just rock the cosmos – it absolutely rattled our…