Physicists warn of ‘catastrophic’ impact from UK science cuts
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN could be affected by UK spending cutsTraczyk, Piotr/CERN 2021-2024…
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Physicists Capture the First Direct View of Superconducting Electrons Jiggling in Unison
The superconducting electrons were jiggling. Not bouncing randomly like atoms in hot water, but oscillating…
Quantum physicists just supersized Schrödinger’s cat
Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter. Physicists have created the largest ever ‘superposition’…
Physicists Want to Run Sunlight Through a Tiny Engine
Most solar energy slips away as heat. Panels convert a fraction; the rest dissipates. Physicists…
Physicists used ‘dark photons’ in an effort to rewrite physics in 2025
Dark photons offer a new explanation for the double-slit experimentRUSSELL KIGHTLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A core…
Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring ‘Quantumness’
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.If there’s one law of physics…
Physicists Shrink an Ocean to the Width of a Hair
Imagine trying to recreate the Pacific Ocean on something smaller than a grain of rice.…
Physicists are uncovering when nature’s strongest force falters
The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion ColliderBROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY We are getting closer…
Physicists Divided on What Quantum Mechanics Says about Reality
Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much…
Physicists Blast Gold to Astonishing Temperatures, Overturning 40 Years of Physics
Superheated Gold Defies ‘Entropy Catastrophe’ Limit, Overturning 40-Year-Old PhysicsPhysicists superheated gold to 14 times its…