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RICE UNIVERSITY

Levitated magnet opens new frontier in search for ultraheavy dark matter

Scientists at Rice University have developed a new method to search for ultraheavy dark matter using a magnetically levitated grain of sand.…
32m ago
Christopher Tunnell stands in a lab with scientific equipment used to levitate a magnet for dark matter research.
Close up of laser equipment inside a quantum physics laboratory used for cooling atoms.
PHYSICS

AI suggests new physics experiments that could outperform human-designed setups

Physics laboratories may soon change how they operate as new research shows artificial intelligence can now ou…
2h ago
A digital security verification icon indicating that the physics.aps.org website is blocking automated bot traffic.
PHYSICS

To Lase or Not to Lase: The Question of Neutrino Superradiance

The American Physical Society website is currently implementing security verification measures to manage traff…
4h ago
A conceptual diagram of an arm qubit architecture with separate modes for data storage and system interaction.
MIT

MIT Qubit Design Could Speed Quantum Operations While Preserving Data

MIT researchers have designed a new type of quantum component that could fix one of the most stubborn problems…
8h ago
Aerial view of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider facility showing the circular ring structure.
PHYSICS

BESIII sets world's most stringent direct limit on Lambda hyperon electric dipole moment

The BESIII collaboration has released new measurements that set the most precise…
10h ago
Close-up of a new quantum optical glass sample being tested with high-intensity laser light in a lab setting.
UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

Quantum-optical spin glass could improve how AI remembers and learns

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have unveiled a new type of quantum op…
12h ago
A laser interferometer sensor used at the LIGO facility to detect gravitational waves in space.
LIGO

In 1972, physicists proposed hunting for gravitational waves with giant laser interferometers, and it took until 2015, after four decades of null results, for twin facilities in Louisiana and Washington to catch the ripple from two black holes colliding a billion light ye

Physics rarely looks like a quick win. In 1972, Rainer Weiss proposed building l…
13h ago
A conceptual cosmic web of gas and dark matter connecting distant galaxies across the universe.
PHYSICS

New Study Expands Search for "Dark Photons," a Leading Dark Matter Candidate

A team of researchers from the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics and the P…
15h ago
The LUX-ZEPLIN detector hardware in a clean room facility before being lowered underground for scientific operations.
LUX-ZEPLIN

Co-Founded by UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor, LUX-ZEPLINSees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter

The hunt for dark matter has hit a new milestone. Researchers at the LUX-ZEPLIN …
17h ago
The massive LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector in South Dakota, featuring internal components used to capture light.
LUX-ZEPLIN

Physicists Spot Curious Signal in Hunt for Elusive Dark Matter Particles

Physicists working at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota …
19h ago
A close-up of a 1x1 pixel tracking icon used for web analytics during a server security audit.
YAHOO

A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics

A computer science student recently stumbled upon a major security flaw while wo…
1d ago
Dr. Stuart Marongwe standing in the University of Botswana physics department workspace.
UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA

University of Botswana physicists answer to Einstein

Physicists at the University of Botswana have achieved a major milestone in theo…
1d ago
The American Physical Society logo on a blue background representing a digital scientific repository.
APS

Fundamental Impossibility of a Superradiant Neutrino Laser

The American Physical Society portal is currently utilizing security verificatio…
1d ago
A stylized digital visualization of a quantum processing unit circuit diagram displayed on a dark monitor.
QUANTUM RINGS

Quantum Computing Use Widens as Price and Access Shape Demand, Quantum Rings Study Finds

Quantum computing is shifting from theoretical exploration to a practical, albei…
2d ago
MICROSCOPE satellite model orbiting Earth in a conceptual illustration of gravitational testing.
PHYSICS

Physicists test the weak equivalence principle in an orbiting space station

The foundation of modern physics just passed a major test. Researchers using the…
2d ago
A laboratory diagram of a tunneling spectroscopy device used to measure superconducting materials at a microscopic level.
HEBREW UNIVERSITY

Scientists Discover Two Superconducting States Hiding as One

Physics researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have overturned a long…
2d ago
The cylindrical LZ liquid xenon detector chamber used to search for dark matter particles underground.
LZ

LZ experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter

Scientists at the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment have reported a single, unexplained…
2d ago
A collage of 15 newly discovered quasars identified by the ESA Euclid telescope showing their infrared signatures.
EUCLID

Distant Quasars Provide Crucial Link In Understanding Earliest Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers have discovered two of the most distant quasars ever seen. These fin…
2d ago
Scientists monitoring the Borexino detector experiment deep within the Gran Sasso mountain to study solar neutrinos.
PHYSICS

First measurement of low-energy solar neutrinos scattering off electrons

Physics researchers at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory recently confirmed a c…
2d ago
Scientists preparing underwater neutrino detection equipment for deployment in Lake Superior.
FERMILAB

Neutrino research to begin again this fall, and it's going to be underwater in Lake Vermilion and Lake Superior

Neutrino research is heading underwater in Northern Minnesota this fall. Scienti…
2d ago
An array of light sensors inside the 10-ton liquid xenon tank of the LZ dark matter detector.
LUX-ZEPLIN

LZ experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter

Scientists involved in the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment have reported a curious re…
2d ago
Artist rendering of a supermassive black hole launching high-energy jets of plasma into space from an accretion disk.
ASTRONOMY

A supermassive black hole erupted in X-rays, and its radio jets followed 300 days later

Astronomers have recorded a massive eruption from a supermassive black hole loca…
2d ago
A colorful visualization of the ASTRID simulation showing the cosmic web and massive black holes.
ASTRID

Meet ASTRID, the New High-Resolution Cosmological Simulation

Cosmologists have released findings from ASTRID, a massive new high-resolution s…
2d ago
Illustration showing a supermassive black hole stripping material from a star while its binary partner is ejected.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Why do black hole flares die out? It may be down to how stars spin

Supermassive black holes are known for consuming stars, but some stars survive r…
2d ago
Scientists check equipment at the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector located one mile underground in South Dakota.
LUX-ZEPLIN

Underground experiment in South Dakota's Black Hills reports 'compelling hint of dark matter'

Scientists working deep beneath the surface in the Black Hills of South Dakota h…
2d ago
The LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector in a surface lab before being installed one mile underground in South Dakota.
UALBANY

Searching for the invisible: UAlbany researchers report they may have found dark matter

Physics researchers at the University at Albany have hit a potential milestone i…
3d ago
A laboratory laser setup used for ultrafast nano-imaging of molecular bonds at the Max Planck Institute.
MAXPLANCK

Femtosecond nano-imaging reveals ultrafast optical control of phonon polaritons

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute have achieved a significant milestone in …
3d ago
An experimental laser setup in a cryogenically cooled chamber at the University of Geneva.
PHYSICS

Physicists finally put Feynman's path integral to the test

Physics researchers at the University of Geneva have successfully verified Feynm…
3d ago
An artist's impression of a black hole consuming a star while emitting powerful jets of gas and light into space.
BLACKHOLE

Astronomers Catch Black Hole Spewing Matter After Feeding

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered that black holes may no…
3d ago
Jim Al-Khalili posing in front of a neutral backdrop while discussing his physics research.
PHYSICS

Quantum Physicist Takes Aim at the Universe's Mysterious Arrow of Time

Physicist Jim Al-Khalili is changing how we look at the universe. In his latest …
3d ago
Close-up laboratory visualization of dual atomic layers reflecting superconducting electron states in a thin film.
PHYSICS

Scientists discover two superconducting states hiding as one

Physicists have uncovered a major secret in how certain materials conduct electr…
3d ago
A laser pulse striking a vanadium dioxide sample during an insulator-to-metal phase transition experiment.
MAXPLANCK

Faint far-infrared radiation drives a correlated insulator-to-metal transition in magic-angle graphene

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have pinpointed the exact moment a mater…
3d ago
Artist impression of a star losing material as it passes near a supermassive black hole.
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

What Can Happen When a Rapidly Spinning Star Meets a Black Hole?

Astrophysicists at Syracuse University have identified a key factor in why some …
3d ago
A stylized representation of a computer screen showing a connection verification error message over a dark space background.
PHYS.ORG

Four 'Little Red Dot' pairs hint at black hole mergers in early universe

Scientific data access hit a snag today. Researchers and students trying to read…
3d ago
A stylized diagram showing two quantum bits connected by a stream of light particles within a laboratory microwave cavity.
ISTA

A “quantum bath” puts quantum entanglement on autopilot

Physics researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria have succ…
4d ago
Close-up microscopic rendering of a thin material layer highlighting dual energy waves in a superconducting lattice.
HEBREW UNIVERSITY

Scientists discover two superconducting states hiding as one

Physicists have finally unmasked a hidden secret inside two widely used supercon…
4d ago
A simulated visual of particle tracks radiating from a high-energy oxygen-oxygen collision inside the ALICE detector.
CERN

A millionth of a second after the Big Bang, matter existed as a near-perfect liquid so hot that protons and neutrons could not yet form—and CERN has now recreated a microscopic droplet of it using oxygen nuclei, the smallest collision system yet to reveal one

CERN researchers have achieved a new milestone in particle physics by recreating…
4d ago
Experimental photoelectron yield map showing interference patterns from excited helium atoms used to measure time.
UPPSALA UNIVERSITY

Quantum interference offers a radically different way to measure time

Timekeeping has traditionally relied on counting ticks from a set start point. R…
4d ago
The ALICE detector at CERN used in the particle physics experiment to simulate the early universe.
CERN

European scientists create ‘little Big Bang’ to study the universe’s origins

Physicists have successfully recreated a mini version of the Big Bang in the lab…
4d ago
An electromagnetic docking interface model positioned in a vacuum chamber for testing by aerospace engineers.
MIT

New method tests magnet-powered braking for safer, more reusable spacecraft reentry

Engineers have unveiled a new electromagnetic docking system designed to replace…
4d ago
International students touring the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak facility in Hefei, Anhui.
EAST

Foreign students explore China's 'artificial sun' in Anhui

Science enthusiasts from around the world are getting a look at the future of en…
4d ago
A stylized IBM quantum processor unit illuminated in a laboratory setting during a testing phase.
IBM

IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes

IBM and the University of Chicago just hit a major milestone in quantum computin…
5d ago
An artist concept of a magnetar emitting X-rays through a polarized magnetic field in deep space.
NATURE

Physicists predicted in 1936 that a powerful magnetic field could turn empty space into a kind of prism — and on August 5, 2026, observations of a magnetar with a field more than a trillion times Earth’s produced the strongest evidence yet that they were right.

Physics from 1936 has finally met the reality of the cosmos. Scientists using NA…
5d ago
A dark cosmic background featuring a glowing accretion disk around a massive black hole in a dense star field.
SISSA

The universe may contain a staggering 40 quintillion black holes

Astronomers have calculated that the observable universe contains roughly 40 qui…
5d ago
A colorful pie chart visualization of the universe's mass-energy composition highlighting 4.9% ordinary matter.
PLANCK

The universe’s total mass-energy budget, according to standard cosmology: 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter and 68.3% dark energy — meaning everything made from the atoms on the periodic table accounts for less than one-twentieth of the cosmos.

Scientists have updated the math on what the universe is made of, and the result…
5d ago
Researchers at Phenikaa University in Việt Nam conducting experiments in a laboratory setting.
PHENIKAA

Việt Nam looks to move from quantum ’back end’ to core technology

Việt Nam is moving toward a new frontier in tech. Historically strong in math an…
5d ago
Voyager 1 spacecraft traveling through the dark, star-filled interstellar medium.
NASA

The electrically charged gas drifting between the stars rings at a pitch between a few hundred and a few thousand hertz, comfortably inside the range of human hearing, which is why NASA engineers can feed a recording straight from Voyager 1 into an ordinar

The common assumption is that space is silent. Science fiction and our own intui…
5d ago
Close-up illustration of microscopic wrinkles in a graphene sheet representing electronic charge separation.
GRAPHENE

Tiny Wrinkles in Graphene Turn It Into a Battery, Physicists Find

Physicists have discovered that the secret to a better battery might be hidden i…
5d ago
Clusters of stars identified by the Gaia satellite shown in an all-sky map.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

Measuring the Mass of the Universe Isn't As Simple as Astronomers Thought

For decades, astronomers have used a single mathematical tool, the initial mass …
5d ago
A stylized digital simulation showing a particle navigating a grid of blocks by pushing them to clear a path.
PHYSICS

Random walks get pushy

Physicists are re-examining the classic concept of a random walk by introducing …
6d ago
Close-up of a thin-film shape memory alloy cooling prototype featuring copper heat exchangers and metallic film strips.
NATURE ENERGY

Heat-driven elastocaloric cooling with shape memory films

Researchers have built a new cooling system that runs on heat instead of electri…
6d ago
A crystal structure diagram of niobium oxydihalides highlighting the layers used for terahertz emission.
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Electric-field control of coherent ferron oscillations

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University have reached a milestone in quan…
6d ago
A chain of strontium atoms held in place by blue optical tweezer cones within a modulated laser field.
CALTECH

Quantum Simulators Put a 40-Year-Old Physics Theory to the Test

Physicists have successfully tested a 40-year-old physics theory using quantum s…
6d ago
Physicist Michaela Eichinger discussing quantum computing architecture and industry trends.
QUANTUM MACHINES

Michaela Eichinger (Quantum Machines): Why classical compute and HPC integration will define useful quantum

Michaela Eichinger, a product solutions physicist at Quantum Machines, argues th…
6d ago
Nuclear physicist Taylor Wilson in his lab, adjusting components of a fusion reactor setup in a controlled environment.
NUCLEAR PHYSICS

Before he was old enough to drive, a 14-year-old talked a university physics department into lending him a sub-basement — the machine he assembled there fused atoms in a plasma hotter than the sun's core and made him the youngest person ever to achiev

In 2008, 14-year-old Taylor Wilson made history by becoming the youngest person …
6d ago
Laser beam projection experiment across a university campus showing light wave generation and detection.
WITS UNIVERSITY

Scientists Overcome Atmospheric Turbulence in Open Air Laser Data Links

Scientists from Wits University and the University of Bordeaux have cleared a si…
6d ago
Researchers at the Advanced Light Source adjust a large, complex instrument designed to generate intense X-ray beams.
BERKELEY LAB

Planning a New Era of Discovery with the Upgraded Advanced Light Source

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is unde…
6d ago
Candidate event displays of two Higgs boson production recorded by ATLAS and CMS detectors at CERN.
CERN

ATLAS and CMS narrow in on double-Higgs production – Home

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider are getting closer to observing a rare e…
6d ago
A VUV frequency comb probes a nuclear clock chamber inside a laboratory at JILA at the University of Colorado Boulder.
CUBoulder

$37.5M NSF award aims to define new quantum frontiers, take technology from lab to field

The U.S. National Science Foundation just awarded $37.5 million to the Universit…
6d ago
A stylized digital rendering of laser pulses hitting a helium atom, showing two electrons returning to emit an X-ray.
PHYSICS

Higher-Energy X-Rays Could Enable a New Form of Quantum Sensing

Researchers have broken through a long-standing barrier in physics regarding X-r…
6d ago
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