57+ min ago   (262+ words) A massive worldwide survey of physicists has revealed surprisingly little agreement about some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. No majority backed the standard cosmological model, a leading explanation for dark matter, or any single theory of quantum gravity. One area…...

2+ hour, 9+ min ago   (669+ words) Electron microscopes can reveal structures far smaller than anything visible with ordinary light. But researchers in Austria say conventional electron microscopes may be leaving valuable information on the table. In a standard system, electrons are mainly counted to build an…...

2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (255+ words) Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the optical Magnus effect for the first time, revealing that a tightly focused laser interacts most strongly with an atom slightly away from the beam’s center. The unexpected shift is similar to the physics that makes…...

23+ hour, 39+ min ago   (261+ words) Quantum computers have the potential to solve complex problems that no supercomputer today can handle. In the foreseeable future, quantum technology's computing power is expected to revolutionise fundamental ways of solving problems in medicine, energy, encryption, AI, and logistics. "The…...

23+ hour, 39+ min ago   (850+ words) To build a large-scale quantum computer that works, scientists and engineers need to overcome the spontaneous errors that quantum bits, or qubits, create as they operate. Scientists encode these building blocks of quantum information to suppress errors in other qubits…...

23+ hour, 9+ min ago   (542+ words) A CERN experiment has given physicists a much sharper look at how gluons behave inside atomic nuclei, providing new evidence that could help distinguish between two competing explanations of what happens at extremely small scales. University of Kansas physicist Daniel…...

1+ day, 4+ min ago   (514+ words) Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a way to protect quantum information using microscopic sound waves. By continuously surrounding a diamond-based qubit with mechanical vibrations, they extended its coherence time by roughly threefold. The same phonons could eventually both transmit and…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (239+ words) Scientists discovered that charged water droplets can damage protective coatings by releasing tiny electrical discharges when they hit a surface. The hidden effect could help explain weathering and lead to tougher coatings for cars, bridges, buildings, and more....

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (628+ words) Nickel can change both its oxidation state and its atomic arrangement under the high-temperature redox conditions involved in POM. Until now, these changes have been difficult to track in detail, making it challenging to determine the true structure responsible for…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (653+ words) A new analysis led by researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, together with Professor Subir Sarkar of the University of Oxford, is challenging one of the central ideas in modern cosmology: that the universe is expanding at…...