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Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step toward miniaturization of particle accelerators by demonstrating free-electron laser ampli...

New protocol could lead to ambient-pressure room-temperature superconductivity The post Pressure quench increases superconducting transition temperature appeare...

We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is possible to pull off this trick i...

A device that relies on quantum effects and oversized atoms may be a more reliable way to measure temperature that doesn't require calibration...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the quantum world...

Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago....

NASA's Artemis II rocket has taken off in a historic launch on Florida's Space Coast, sending humans back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years....

A team of researchers from Poland have developed new mathematical methods that could help enable better control of quantum entanglement and teleportation experi...

The U.S. space agency on Wednesday evening launched four astronauts on what may be a record-breaking trip around the moon—see the spacecraft live...

Sperm gets lost in space; raccoons solve puzzles; the physics of folding a crepe; and more....

Wednesday, April 1, 2026: Get the latest news and updates on the Artemis II mission as NASA makes final preparations to return humanity to the moon....

A major solar storm during the Artemis II mission could harm astronauts. Here’s how NASA is protecting them...

Quantum technologies rely on more than just entanglement. Another, less well-known ingredient is non-stabiliserness, often called magic The post Revealing the m...

A research team led by Professor Jiwoong Yang of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST has developed next-generation optical sensor technolo...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a mat...

Pair instability supernovae create a "mass gap" in black holes....

Cooling metal bars to near absolute zero, suspending microscopic gold beads, or searching for signs that gravity might be quantum: meet the scientists hunting f...

Once considered an oddity of quantum physics, time crystals could be a good building block for accurate clocks and sensors, according to new calculations...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field rotates. The other comes from the sha...

CERN levels up with new superconducting karts Following on from the robotic mice, CERN engineers have now developed a super-charged kart to enable worke...

Watch ESA astronaut Sławosz’s talk at CERN On Thursday 12 March, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski came to CERN to give an insider’s view of his time on the I...

NASA said an X-class solar flare is not currently expected to affect the Artemis II mission, while weather on Earth looks favorable for a smooth launch....

A joint research team between the Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB) at The University of Osaka and Fixstars Corporation has demonstrated...

In the air people breathe, the water on Earth, the stars in the sky and more, atoms are the building blocks that make up the universe. Understanding the structu...

A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be stitched together from interlocking pe...

When you fold a flexible material such as a pancake or a tortilla, its behaviour depends on a competition between gravity and elasticity...

Superconductivity—the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any energy loss to heat—enables highly efficient, ultra-fast electronics essential fo...

New research suggests devastating climate outcomes that are typically associated with extreme global warming could hit even we limit heating to 3.6 F above prei...

13 new projects at CERN funded by Europe in 2026 CERN has 13 new projects funded by the European Union under the Research Infrastructures call of Hori...

On their voyages to the moon, NASA’s astronauts are finally getting some creature comforts of terrestrial toilets—such as having a door and being able to pee an...

Advanced photon-counting detectors could transform clinical imaging The post Counting photons could redefine the future of CT imaging appeared first on Physics...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales....

Gravitational waves could be responsible for the production of dark matter during the early phases of our universe's formation, according to results of a new st...

A 2025 astronaut photo shows a massif made of concentric mountain ridges in the Libyan desert. The rocky walls contain ancient artworks and are occasionally use...

Researchers have uncovered a new way to generate exotic oscillation states in tiny magnetic structures—using only minimal energy. By exciting magnetic waves, th...

A new, miniature laser source developed by applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Technical...

A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters....

The direction in which the electromagnetic field of circularly polarized light rotates can be easily reversed by applying a voltage, RIKEN researchers have demo...

A new shape-shifting material can change both its texture and color in seconds, inspired by the camouflage abilities of octopuses. By precisely controlling how...

The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before the end of Donald Trump’s presidenc...

Quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality thanks to new research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked start-up company. Theorists and expe...

Duplicating the information held in quantum computers was thought to be impossible thanks to the no-cloning theorem, but researchers have now found a workaround...

Researchers have found a layer of fresh water beneath Utah's Great Salt Lake that reaches up to 2.5 miles deep and could turn out to be as big, or bigger, than...

Author Andy Weir and astrophysicist Becky Smethurst unpack the physics in the new Hollywood space epic The post Exploring the astrophysics behind <em>Project Ha...

NASA is hoping for a historic moon launch, not a punchline on April 1....

China's cuts to aerosol emissions reduced sea ice loss, but it may have revealed a bigger story about climate change....

Future quantum computers will need to be far less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages, banking information and other sensiti...

Hidden features uncovered in X-ray signals are set to overturn a key scientific theory and fundamentally change how X-rays are interpreted across fields of phys...

Astronomers have finally cracked a decades-old mystery about red giant stars—how material from their deep interiors makes its way to the surface. Using cutting-...

MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside superconductors. By compressing this norm...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have uncovered a bold new way to explain how the universe began—one that could reshape our understanding of the Big Ban...

CERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platform In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open...

The winning entries in the 2025 Global Physics Photowalk contest showcase the beauty of toil and discovery. The post A Through-The-Lens Look at the...

Here's what's on the experiment roster for the Artemis 2 moon mission....

Scientists have created a new kind of time crystal using sound waves to levitate tiny beads in mid-air. These particles interact in a one-sided, unbalanced way,...

NASA launched the Artemis II moon mission on Wednesday, April 1—a date that will enable the crew to observe the moon pass in front of the sun from space...

In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as...

Scientists are designing techniques to smash up space rocks that could be headed our way...

A Virtual Telescope Project livestream aims to track NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft after launch — here's how to watch it as it travels through space....

Here's where you need to be to see the Artemis 2 moon rocket launch with your own eyes....

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the universe in a completely different way t...

New coiled device could rival expensive magnet facilities, say scientists The post Miniature magnets break field strength record appeared first on Physics World...

Unistellar co-founder tells Space.com about how citizen scientists are using smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense....

A star you can see with the naked eye has kept astronomers guessing for decades with its unusually powerful X-rays. Now, thanks to highly precise observations f...

Truck was used last month to transport 92 antiprotons around CERN The post Shock as CERN antiproton lorry vanishes in staff car park appeared first on Physics...

NASA's XRISM X-ray spacecraft has clocked 2 million mph winds ripping out of a distant galaxy bursting with star formation....

Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules at the final stages of development. U...

A record warm winter meant that snow levels across the western U.S. were already low, but an incredible March heat wave has made things even worse...

The crew's 10-day mission will be filled with science, spacecraft tests, medical checks, survival training and more....

Sensing and programmable metamaterials could benefit from discovery The post Magnetic friction defies centuries-old law appeared first on Physics World....

Something is out there. As far as scientists know, just 15% of the matter in the universe is the ordinary kind we can see. The other 85%, called dark matter, re...

CERN to host flagship European open access publishing platform Representation of the multidisciplinary nature of the ORE platform (Image: Santa Fe)...

That's one small sip of Manischewitz…...

Venus and Jupiter dominate April's evening sky, while Mercury, Mars and Saturn linger in the dawn — here's how and when to spot them all....

Accelerator Report: HiLumi LHC beam reliability runs pave the way to the future After the major upgrades carried out during Long Shutdown 2 (LS2, 2019–2...

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider. If built, it could offer a new windo...

NASA has given the 10-day Artemis II mission the green light after its flight readiness review, and the weather outlook remains favorable....

Computer Security: [Pen|Pan|Pant]testing Following the successful conclusion of the 2023 cybersecurity audit, 2026 will see another series of vulnerabil...

Monash University researchers have captured the exact atomic movements that write data to next-generation memory devices, which could pave the way for smaller,...

"A better understanding of Saturn’s environment is especially urgent now as plans for our return to Saturn and its moon Enceladus start to be developed."...

A new analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope photos reveals that a peculiar comet slowed its spin before fully reversing its rotational direction via "outg...

Have you been keeping up to date with physics news? Try our short quiz to find out The post Quiz of the week: how many antiprotons did CERN transport by truck?...

Scientists in the Riccio College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of California Santa Barbara have demonstrated key...

A cloud of 92 antiprotons have been on a journey around CERN’s campus The post Researchers at CERN transport antiprotons by truck in world‑first experiment app...

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand. The post In Expanding de Sitter S...

In quantum technologies, everything depends on the ability to detect the properties carried by a single photon. But in the real world, that photon of interest i...

Physicists working on the LHCb experiment have spotted an elusive and fleeting particle, a heavier and more charming cousin to the proton, that has been sought...

"Things are certainly starting to feel real here at the Cape."...

CMS strengthens the case for toponium The top quark, the heaviest and most short-lived elementary particle known, has long been thought to decay too qui...

SpaceX Starlink spacecraft was seen prior to breaking up in orbit by a satellite....

"I just don't want to get caught flat-footed when we start to have to protect US interests out there."...

When lasers were invented in the 1960s, they opened new avenues for scientific discovery and everyday applications, from scanners at the grocery store to correc...

ALICE sees new sign of primordial plasma in proton collisions In the first few microseconds after the Big Bang, the Universe was in an extremely hot and...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuc...

"It’ll go when the engines light at T-0."...

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and m...

On Tuesday, CERN will transport antiprotons on a truck for the first time, testing the plan to deliver antimatter by road to research labs across Europe...

New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems....

Silicon is ubiquitous in modern electronics, and now it is becoming increasingly useful in quantum computing. In particular, silicon's compatibility with existi...

Humans are the only species that has chins. A recent study sheds light on how that came to be and why evolution doesn’t always follow the rules...

Quantum physicists at ANU have observed atoms entangled in motion. "It's really weird for us to think that this is how the universe works," says Dr. Sean Hodgma...

Perovskite crystals can dramatically and reversibly change shape when hit with light, a behavior not seen in conventional semiconductors. This effect, called ph...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have uncovered a new way to manipulate unusual magnetic states by exploiting “frustration” inside a crystal’s atomic structure. T...

NASA's Artemis II mission is set to take four astronauts on a record-breaking spaceflight around the moon, bringing humans farther into space than ever before....

NASA is gearing up to send astronauts back to the lunar environment for the first time in nearly 55 years. We've broken the 10-day mission into 12 key steps, fr...

Elon Musk’s space Internet company said this satellite, which appears to have blown to pieces, did not appear to pose a risk to the ISS or the upcoming NASA moo...

CERN community: celebrate spring with us and win chocolate Spring at ISOLDE – a previous winner of the CERN community photography competition (Image: Sa...

The demonstration of the first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries....

Researchers at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, measured the temporal duration of individual pulses of an extraordinary for...

A daring 10-day voyage will take four astronauts on a loop around the moon and set the stage for future forays to the lunar surface...

The US Space Force might move additional payloads off of ULA's grounded Vulcan rocket....

A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunli...

It wasn't their No. 1 problem, but it was a problem for going number one....

NASA's Artemis II flight around the moon will expose astronauts to space weather. Space scientist Patricia Reiff tells Live Science how solar flares and radiati...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way t...

CERN is working on building an antimatter delivery service. The project passed a big test by successfully transporting 92 antiprotons around a 4-kilometre loop...

NASA plans to make history today (April 1) with the launch of Artemis 2, the first crewed moon mission since Apollo 17 in 1972....

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have finally elucidated how these different...

NASA launched its Artemis 2 mission today (April 1), sending astronauts toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years....

The world's largest particle smasher is due an upgrade, but is there anything left to discover?...

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics....

A new subatomic particle known as the Ξcc⁺ has been discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. This heavy proton-like particle contains two charm quarks and wa...

LUX-ZEPLIN is the most sensitive dark matter detector on Earth. Will it finally detect WIMPs?...

The "Pink Moon" will rise on the same day Artemis 2 is due to launch a crew of 4 to lunar space....

Scientists have found a clever way to supercharge ultra-thin semiconductors by reshaping the space beneath them rather than altering the material itself. By pla...

"If an event is particularly bad, there are some places in the capsule, such as storage bays and down by the toilet, that the crew can go to."...

Scientists have developed a powerful new computational method that could accelerate the search for next-generation materials capable of turning sunlight into us...

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, phy...

Scientists have taken lasers beyond light and into the realm of sound, creating a breakthrough “phonon laser” that manipulates tiny vibrations at the quantum le...

Comet MAPS is about to face its ultimate test as it sweeps just 101,000 miles above the sun's surface....

After the passing of physicist Anthony Leggett, columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan remembers their personal connection with this giant of quantum physics, and...

Author(s): Sophia Chen Through a quantum-switch experiment, researchers attempt to reveal “indefinite causal order”—a quantum phenomenon involving events in a b...

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson A new technique efficiently and reliably manipulates information held in a quantum memory. [Physics 19, s29] Published Tue Mar 17, 20...

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson A new approach manufactures many high-quality diamond-based quantum memory chips simultaneously on a single wafer. [Physics 19, s34]...

Author(s): Pengfei Zhang A theoretical study reveals how to control and drive a quantum system without causing its decoherence. [Physics 19, 41] Published Mon...

Author(s): Sophia Chen New theoretical work shows how an unusual state of matter that oscillates between spin states could be used in timekeeping. [Physics 19,...

Author(s): David Ehrenstein Planting vacancies into the atomic lattice of a brittle material increases its toughness and hardness. [Physics 19, s38] Published...

Author(s): Marric Stephens Applying thermodynamic principles makes quantum machine-learning protocols more efficient. [Physics 19, s28] Published Thu Mar 12, 2...

Author(s): Charles Day Weak tidal forces alter the gravitational-wave signal from merging neutron stars by just enough that the telltale signature could be dete...

Author(s): Huaiming Guo Materials from a new class of magnets could host permanent dissipationless spin currents when they enter a superconducting state. [Phys...

Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson Measuring the acceleration of stellar remnants called pulsars helps researchers map how mass is distributed in our region of the Galax...

Author(s): Sam Jarman Using a rapid pressure-quench technique, researchers have preserved a metastable phase in a superconductor at a record 151 K under ambient...

Author(s): Rachel Berkowitz Andrea Damascelli recounts the struggles of coordinating different sectors to establish a quantum technology ecosystem in Canada. [...