Researchers demonstrate a fluxonium qubit that retains its quantum information for 1.43 milliseconds, 10 times longer than the previous best lifetime for this system

Controlling the Bounce of a Bottle

A quantum repeater based on trapped ions allows the transmission of entangled, telecom-wavelength photons over 50 km

Large Photonic Processor Solves Graph Problems

Measuring Cosmic Expansion with a Lensed Supernova. Measuring Cosmic Expansion with a Lensed Supernova

“Off switch” makes explosives safer

Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist Makes His Biggest Claim

Polygon structures in desert soils are likely the result of convection in the salty fluid beneath the surface, based on comparisons between fluid simulations and observations

The film surrounding a soap bubble can be up to 8 °C cooler than the environment, a finding that has implications for bubble stability

Why Wetting a Surface Can Increase Friction

In 1992, physicists proposed water could transition between high- and low-density liquid forms when it is supercooled—quickly chilled to a temperature below which it would normally freeze

Simulations indicate magnetic-field instabilities can induce radio-wave hot spots that orbit the black hole, a proposition that future Event Horizon Telescope measurements could test

Honeybee Tongue Hair Linked to Nectar-Collection Efficiency

Explaining Mercury’s Superconductivity, 111 Years Later

Wormholes Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight

Dark Matter as an Intergalactic Heat Source

A magnetic field can significantly boost the performance of a large-scale fusion experiment that may lead to a future source of clean power

A “Green” Quantum Sensor

Fusion Turns Up the Heat

On the road to a quantum internet, researchers have now demonstrated an optically connected pair of entangled quantum memories separated by 12.5 km; the longest physical separation so far achieved.

Distinctive features of gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the existence of long-sought ultralight bosons

Neutrinos of extremely high energy routinely strike Earth. Physicists suspect these particles are created in cosmic processes involving black holes

An experiment shows that a 658-km-long ultra-low-loss optical fiber used for quantum cryptographic key distribution can simultaneously serve to detect and locate earthquakes

When two black holes spiral into each other, surprisingly the mergers can sometimes kick the final black hole away at a high enough speed to eject it from its host galaxy.A new analysis of gravitational waves from a merger provides the first direct evidence of a strong kick.

Physicists have made a very low-pressure gas move in a circular path with essentially no friction, offering a test bed for understanding the physics that goes on inside exotic superconductors.Atoms chilled to 30 nanokelvin gradually form a ring and travel in a circle.

Spiders use electric fields to fly, and we may finally know how

Euler’s 243-Year-Old mathematical puzzle that is known to have no classical solution has been found to be soluble if the objects being arrayed in a square grid show quantum behavior

Nanoscale Computer Operates at the Speed of Light

Lizard Scale Patterns Described with Antiferromagnetic Model

Record Lifetime for a Bubble

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