The Universe may have already started slowing down
The universe may not be speeding up after all. According to a new study, its expansion could actually…
Simulations suggest the early universe helped black holes grow big, but not in the long run
Illustration of a black hole growing at an extremely fast (super-Eddington) rate. Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld At the heart…
Thick Dust Can’t Stop Euclid From Doing Its Job
Astronomy would be a lot easier if there were no clouds of gas and dust in space. There’d…
Is China’s ‘God particle’ quest over? World’s largest collider project may be dropped
The quest to understand the “God particle” may have just hit a wall in China. An ambitious multibillion-dollar…
Astronomers Think They May Have Spotted the Universe’s First Stars Glowing From the Dawn of Time
Artist’s impression of a field of Population III stars as they would have appeared after the Big Bang.…
John Joannopoulos (1947–2025) | Nature Photonics
Authors and Affiliations Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Marin Soljačić Department of Electrical…
Breakthrough links magnetism and electricity for faster tech
Engineers at the University of Delaware have uncovered a new way to connect magnetic and electric forces in…
Paradox of rotating turbulence finally tamed with ‘hurricane-in-a-lab’
By rehabilitating Taylor-Couette flows with Kolmogorov’s small-scale universality, researchers have created a powerful baseline for the study of…
On-chip quantum interference of indistinguishable single photons from integrated independent molecules
Pelucchi, E. et al. The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies. Nat. Rev. Phys.…
Zeroing In on Zero-Point Motion Inside a Crystal
November 5, 2025• Physics 18, 178 A nanocrystal cooled to near absolute zero produces an unexpected light emission,…
Caltech’s Pioneering Quantum Hub Celebrates 25 Years
In September 2000, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) was born (albeit with a different name,…
We Could Use Neutrino Detectors As Giant Particle Colliders
There is a limit to how big we can build particle colliders on Earth, whether that is because…