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ANITA was placed in Antarctica because there is little chance of interference from other signals; to capture the emission signals, the balloon-borne radio detector is sent to fly over stretches of ice, capturing what are called ice showers. Image credit: Stephanie Wissel / Penn State.

Two Anomalous Radio Signals Detected Coming from Antarctic Ice

Jun 13, 2025 by News Staff

The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on NASA balloons high...

A rendering of the ion trap chip. Image credit: Jochen Wolf & Tom Harty, University of Oxford.

Scientists Set New Record for Qubit Operation Accuracy

Jun 10, 2025 by News Staff

A team of physicists at the University of Oxford has achieved the lowest-ever error rate for a quantum logic operation — just 0.000015%, or one error...

Illustration of photon-photon scattering in the laboratory: two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus with a third red beam to polarise the quantum vacuum; this allows a fourth blue laser beam to be generated, with a unique direction and color, which conserves momentum and energy. Image credit: Zixin (Lily) Zhang.

Physicists Study How Light Interacts with Quantum Vacuum

Jun 5, 2025 by News Staff

Physicists have achieved the first-ever real-time, 3D simulations of how intense laser beams alter the quantum vacuum — a state once assumed to be...

This artist’s concept portrays the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford, STScI.

New Study Shows How Astrophysicists Can Use Black Holes as Particle Supercolliders

Jun 4, 2025 by News Staff

New research by physicists from the University of Oxford, Johns Hopkins University and the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris shows that collisions between...

A muon particle passing through lead in a cloud chamber. Image credit: Jino John 1996 / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Physicists Measure Muon Magnetic Anomaly with Unprecedented Precision

Jun 4, 2025 by News Staff

Physicists from the Muon g-2 experiment have released their third measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly. The final result agrees with their published...

An artist’s impression of a neutron star that is ‘evaporating’ slowly via Hawking-like radiation. Image credit: Daniëlle Futselaar / Artsource.nl.

Objects in Our Universe Evaporate Faster than Thought, Scientists Say

May 12, 2025 by News Staff

In a 2023 paper, Professor Heino Falcke and his colleagues at Radboud University showed that not only black holes, but also all other objects in the Universe...

Illustration of an ultraperipheral collision where the two lead (208Pb) ion beams at the LHC pass by close to each other without colliding; in the electromagnetic dissociation process, a photon interacting with a nucleus can excite oscillations of its internal structure and result in the ejection of small numbers of neutrons (two) and protons (three), leaving the gold (203Au) nucleus behind. Image credit: CERN.

CERN Physicists Observe Conversion of Lead into Gold

May 12, 2025 by News Staff

Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons...

An artist’s impression of a blazar. Image credit: DESY / Science Communication Lab.

Physicists Develop Novel Quantum Theory of Gravity

May 5, 2025 by News Staff

The new theory, developed by physicists at Aalto University, describes gravity in a way that’s compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics,...

Zangenite. Image credit: Shihao Zang / NYU.

Scientists Discover New Type of Crystal

May 1, 2025 by News Staff

In exploring how crystals form, researchers at New York University came across an unusual, rod-shaped crystal that hadn’t been identified before. Zangenite....

This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Gravity is Result of Computational Process within Our Universe, Physicist Says

Apr 28, 2025 by News Staff

University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson proposes a new way to think about gravity — not just as a pull, but as something that happens when...

A high-energy photonic jet (white and blue) blasts through a collapsar with a black hole at its center; the red space around the jet represents the cocoon where free neutrons may be captured causing the r-process, the nucleosynthesis that results in the formation of heavy elements. Image credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Stars Dissolve into Neutrons to Form Heavy Elements, Study Suggests

Apr 24, 2025 by News Staff

High-energy photons produced deep in gamma-ray burst jets emerging from a collapsed star could dissolve the outer stellar layers into free neutrons, causing...

Double-prism device with thin film in between shown as dark light absorbing plane -- mimicking a gravitational black hole. Image credit: Nina Vaidya, University of Southampton.

Newly-Developed Optical Device Mimics Black and White Gravitational Holes

Apr 16, 2025 by News Staff

In general relativity, a gravitational white hole is a hypothetical region of space that cannot be entered from outside. It is the reverse of a black hole...

Evolution of a light beam carrying optical rotatum as a function of propagation distance. Image credit: Dorrah et al., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adr9092.

Physicists Create New Type of Structured Light: Optical Rotatum

Apr 15, 2025 by News Staff

The structure of optical rotatum follows a logarithmic spiral — a signature that is commonly seen in the pattern formation of seashells and galaxies,...

Conversion occurring in a nanometric system of two photons into an entangled state in their total angular momentum. Image credit: Shalom Buberman, Shultzo3d.

New Type of Quantum Entanglement Demonstrated

Apr 14, 2025 by News Staff

Physicists at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology say they have observed a new form of quantum entanglement in the total angular momentum...

Interior view of the KATRIN main spectrometer. Image credit: M. Zacher / KATRIN Collaboration.

KATRIN Physicists Measure Upper Mass Limit of Neutrino

Apr 11, 2025 by News Staff

Physicists with the KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment report the most precise measurement of the upper mass limit of the neutrino to date,...

To make livermorium, Gates et al. fused isotopes of titanium and plutonium. Image credit: Jenny Nuss, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Livermorium: Physicists Find Novel Way to Produce Element 116

Apr 7, 2025 by News Staff

Using Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s 88-Inch Cyclotron, an international team of physicists has successfully made two atoms of livermorium (atomic...

Yang et al. generated highly mixed quantum states with distinct quantum properties. Image credit: University of Innsbruck.

Scientists Generate ‘Hot Schrödinger Cat States’

Apr 4, 2025 by News Staff

The quantum superposition principle allows us to prepare a system in a superposition of two arbitrary states. The paradigmatic example is the superposition...

This image shows emulsion droplets stabilized by silica nanoparticles with remaining nickel nanoparticles on the droplet surface. Image credit: Raykh et al., doi: 10.1038/s41567-025-02865-1.

Physicists Create Shape-Recovering Liquids

Apr 4, 2025 by News Staff

The newly-discovered shape-recovering liquids defy long-held expectations derived from the laws of thermodynamics, according to a team of physicists at...

Dark Energy Survey Supports Theory of Evolving Dark Energy

Mar 19, 2025 by News Staff

The Lambda-CDM (ΛCDM) model has been the foundation of modern cosmology for some time now, successfully describing large-scale structures in the Universe....