A New Discovery Reopens the Search for Elusive Dark Matter
New research in Physical Review Letters challenges assumptions about how dark photons interacted with the early universe.Computer simulations show that nonlinear effects may have stopped their energy ...
19 Sep 28min
A Radical New Idea Could Help Reconcile Quantum Physics and Gravity
Modern physics may need to move beyond the idea of point-like particles to reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity.A new non-local approach replaces isolated points with extended topologic...
18 Sep 36min
A New Quantum State Could Transform What We Can Build on a Chip
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a stable Bose-Einstein condensate in an ultrathin solid-state device. Using excitons, the quantum fluid can exist at much higher temper...
17 Sep 23min
Scientists Narrow Down Where Dark Matter Could Be Hiding
The XENONnT experiment has pushed the search for dark matter to unprecedented sensitivity.Using a massive liquid-xenon detector and machine learning, researchers found no definitive signal but set pow...
16 Sep 14min
Flower States Reveal a Hidden Asymmetry in the Quantum World
Researchers have uncovered a striking irreversibility gap in quantum entanglement using so-called flower states.The study shows that creating these states can require vastly more entanglement than can...
14 Sep 24min
A New Breakthrough in the Physics of Quantum Entanglement
Researchers have uncovered new insights into the irreversibility of quantum entanglement using a special class of quantum states called flower states.The study reveals a significant gap between the en...
13 Sep 24min
Scientists Discover Particles That Break Newton’s Third Law
Researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have discovered microscopic particles that can behave in ways that appear to violate Newton’s third law.Under electric fields, unequal particle interacti...
12 Sep 21min
Quantum Matter Is Changing in Ways Scientists Never Saw Before
MIT physicists have observed, for the first time, how different electron phases emerge and coexist in a quantum material. Laser pulses revealed two distinct transition mechanisms: one phase returns un...
11 Sep 17min
