Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are mostly made of hydrogen

Entangled Photons Maintained Under New York Streets

New study finds that perceived indecision/slow decision making is linked to making less biased decisions.

Physicists have sent 20,000 entangled photons per second down a 34-km-long section of a New York fiber-optic network with a fidelity of 99%

According to general relativity, black holes can form from ultra-intense light

Physicists have built the most accurate clock ever: one that gains or loses only one second every 40 billion years.

Exploring Quantum Mpemba Effects

Crystallizing the Path Toward a Nuclear Clock

Half-life of Ge-71 and the gallium anomaly

Mimicking an Elephant Trunk

Outlandish molecule suggested to lurk inside Uranus and Neptune, affecting their magnetic fields: scientists have determined the conditions that enable the existence of a very peculiar ion

Delaying electron injection using larger than usual laser focal spot can increase electron energy produced by laser wakefield accelerator

Quantum gravity gets a new test

Scientists found 7 astrophysical tau neutrinos—particles that are notoriously difficult to detect—in an analysis of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have yielded the simultaneous appearance of three force-carrying elementary particles that had never been seen together before: two particles called W bosons of opposite electric charges…

Researchers have identified promising ceramic materials for metal coatings that would boost gas turbine efficiency

Cold Chemistry Is Different

Correlation Spectroscopy with Multiqubit-Enhanced Phase Estimation

Experimental Evidence for Millisecond--Timescale Structural Evolution Following the Microsecond--Timescale Folding of a Small Protein

Physicists had recorded the first laser-powered fusion reaction that exceeded “scientific breakeven,” meaning it produced more energy than it consumed.

Feynman's Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved

An experiment demonstrates a record-long quantum coherence time that exceeds 20 milliseconds for a germanium vacancy in diamond

Novel experiment devised to test quantum-ness of large masses, resolving question if quantum nature exist beyond tiny atomic scales

The first evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a Z boson and a photon is presented, with a statistical significance of 3.4 standard deviations

Centrifugal flows drive reverse rotation of Feynman's sprinkler

Phys. Rev. A 108, 062615 (2023) - Monte Carlo graph search for quantum circuit optimization

Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions via Dynamics in a Wide Double-Well Potential

Researchers find superlubricity defies normal friction laws: friction on atomic-smooth surfaces like graphene isn't weight-dependent but governed by thermal fluctuations

Experiments verify a theory that explains why polymer solutions like paint doesn’t dry any faster on a dry day than on a wet day

Encouraging students to understand the 1D wave equation

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