Scientists detect gravitational waves for the second time
About a hundred years ago, in his theory of general relativity Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, “ripples”…
Colorful secrets of chemical elements with slow motion flames
If you are a “Game of Thrones” series fan like I am, upon looking at the picture of green flame…
“Molecules” made of light may be possible, say physicists
A team including theoretical physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken a step toward building…
Magnetic wormhole connecting two regions of space created by Spanish physicists
Physicists at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona have designed and created in the laboratory the first experimental wormhole that can…
Physicists map conductivity change in transition from 3 to 2 dimensions
Scientists from the Moscow Institute Of Physics And Technology and Tulane University (New Orleans) have for the first time described…
New paper shows how spacetime is built from quantum entanglement
A new paper to be published in Physical Review Letters has made a significant step toward unifying general relativity and…
Spring-assisted exoskeleton beats evolution
It’s taken millions of years for evolution to perfect how we walk, but research published in the journal Nature shows…
Image captures light as both a particle and a wave
Quantum mechanics tells us that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave, but it’s only possible to…
Dark matter could be the wild card in extinction events
Our planet’s long path around and through the Milky Way means that dark matter could be the ultimate wild card…
Table-top particle accelerator sets world record
Using a small, inches-long device, researchers have accelerated subatomic particles to the highest energies ever recorded from a compact particle…
Mysterious “action at a distance” between liquids may be commonplace
Back in 2010, researchers found that superfluid helium reservoirs stored in separate containers could behave collectively. Now, a new theoretical…
Quantum camera takes pic using only entangled photons
Using a new quantum imaging technique, a picture has been captured without the camera detecting the light that was used…
Physicists map quantum to classical collapse
Extracting information from a system as it collapses from a quantum state to a classical state was never considered possible…
Algae turn quantum coherence on and off
A team of researchers has discovered how algae that survive in very low levels of light are able to switch…
Researchers go beyond quantum limit
Scientists are capable of measuring the position of an object with unprecedented accuracy, but the Heisenberg uncertainty principle ultimately places…
First direct evidence supporting cosmic inflation
Scientists announced today that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the Universe’s cosmic microwave background (CMB). The…
Spinning nanoparticles hint at origin of life
Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call “living rotating crystals,” a…
Quasars at opposite ends of the Universe could close a loophole in quantum mechanics
Physicists have proposed an experiment that may close the last major loophole of Bell’s inequality – a 50-year-old theorem that,…
Fusion lab reports important boot-strapping milestone
Being able to generate more energy from a fusion reaction than the energy required to control the reaction (known as…
Recent discovery of quantum vibrations in brain neurons lends weight to his controversial theory of consciousness, says Sir Roger Penrose
Incorporating the recent discovery of quantum vibrations inside brain neurons, a new assessment of a controversial 20-year-old theory of consciousness…
Single-use computer memories may emerge as gold standard for secure transactions
Computer security systems may one day get a boost from quantum physics, as a result of recent research into a…
The entropy of nations
In his book The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that as individuals strive to maximize their advantage in life,…
Collapse of Universe may be sooner rather than later
It could happen tomorrow, it could happen in a billion years, but whenever it is, calculations by physicists at the…
The cloning of quantum information from the past may be Achilles’ heel of quantum cryptography
While the notion of physically travelling through time may still be the stuff of science fiction, a new research paper…
Entangled quarks hint at reconciliation of quantum mechanics and general relativity
Building on related research that showed how two entangled black holes could be linked by a wormhole, an MIT physicist…
Novel synchrotron X-ray generator could revolutionize security, medicine
Compared to ordinary X-rays, synchrotron X-rays produce much higher quality images with less radiation, but traditional synchrotron X-ray devices are…
Photonic molecules behave like light saber, say scientists
Photons have long been described as massless particles which don’t interact with each other, but Harvard and MIT scientists have…
Dark matter observations: missed it by that much
A theory which endows dark matter particles with a rare type of electromagnetism has been strengthened by a detailed analysis…
Physics-defying magnetic field behavior in solar flares explained
When a solar flare filled with charged particles erupts from the Sun, the flux-freezing theorem dictates that the magnetic lines…
Pear-shaped atoms may hold clues to unsolved physics
Physicists have found the first direct evidence of exotic pear shaped nuclei in atoms, a discovery that could advance the…