Distorted honeycomb magnet edges closer to a quantum spin liquid
Most magnets are predictable. Cool them down, and their tiny magnetic moments snap into place like disciplined soldiers.…
Driving Floquet physics with excitonic fields
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The Universe’s Most Common Water is a Hot Mess
Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing…
China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ Broke a Fusion Barrier That Held for Decades
For the first time, researchers have successfully exceeded the Greenwald limit, a critical barrier in plasma density, without…
Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Win Frontiers of Knowledge Award for “Magic Angle” Discovery » MIT Physics
The duo is recognized for the discovery of “twistronics,” a breakthrough in material science that allows scientists to…
Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes…
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision
An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to…
Mystery of the Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Solved » Explorersweb
When the James Webb Space Telescope sent back its first images of the cosmos, astronomers were stunned to…
First indirect evidence for primordial monsters – CERN Courier
Collapsing monster Simulation of a primordial monster star giving birth to a quasar – an extremely luminous active…
Webb may have captured the birth of a supermassive black hole
A strange, distant galaxy shows signs that suggest astronomers have witnessed the birth of a new supermassive black…
Supermassive black hole spotted awaken from 100 million-year slumber
Researchers have observed a long-dormant black hole being “reborn” in a distant galaxy. Located at the heart of…
Gravitational lensing sheds new light on Hubble constant controversy – Physics World
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