Physics

Dec 28th, 2025 - As astrophysicists, we are trained to be cautious. New theories appear frequently, and most do not survive careful examination. Yet every so often, a framework emerges that does something unusual: it does not contradict what we already observe, it does not multiply speculative entities, and it does not demand that decades of experimental evidence be discarded. Instead, it quietly suggests that we may have misunderstood something fundamental. I recently encountered such a framework. It is known ... [Read More]

Dec 27th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google For centuries, most scientists have shared the belief that light behaves as both a wave and a particle. This idea, then, became the central component to quantum theory, sprouting the field of science known as quantum mechanics. The double-slit experiment supported the idea, showing bright and dark bands that indicated wave-like interference. But now, a new study suggests that this experiment might not lock us into seeing light as a wave. According to the experts, we can ... [Read More]

Nov 27th, 2025 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. In today's digital age, silicon is king. But as with other semiconductors that are widely used in the industry, trace quantities of other elements are often added to silicon to influence its electronic behaviour, a process known as doping. Now, scientists have taken doping to a new level, ... [Read More]

Nov 25th, 2025 - Researchers have designed a particle accelerator with nanotubes smaller than a human hair. We're used to seeing ever greater particle accelerators — colossal machines sprawling across landscapes, built to reveal the smallest details of the universe. Think of the Large Hadron Collider and its 27-kilometer-long ring, not to mention the $9 billion that went into its construction and operation thus far. But a new study from an international team of physicists, led by researchers at the ... [Read More]

Nov 24th, 2025 - CERN's ALPHA collaboration has pulled off a stunning breakthrough. Trapping antimatter is kind of like trying to catch snowflakes with a frying pan — if the snowflakes wanted to blow up the pan every time they touched it. That's basically the daily grind for CERN physicists who study antihydrogen. For years, they've been capturing these fragile anti-atoms one by one, inching toward answers about one of the universe's biggest mysteries. Now, they've made a major leap. The ALPHA ... [Read More]

Nov 24th, 2025 - Scientists link two distant quantum dots, teleporting information between their photons for the first time. Every message we send online, whether a bank transfer or a meme, relies on light. Tiny pulses travel through fiber-optic cables, bouncing between nodes that amplify the signal every few dozen kilometers. Your internet might come from your wireless carrier or WiFI, but broadband's backbone is still fiber-optic cables. But the quantum internet of the future — an ultra-secure network ... [Read More]

Nov 7th, 2025 - High-temperature superconductivity is still not fully understood. Now, an international research team at BESSY II has measured the energy of charge carrier pairs in undoped La₂CuO₄. Their findings revealed that the interaction energies within the potentially superconducting copper oxide layers are significantly lower than those in the insulating lanthanum oxide layers. These results contribute to a better understanding of high-temperature superconductivity and could also be relevant ... [Read More]

Nov 4th, 2025 - Follow Earth on Google A team led by MIT used a simple molecule to peek inside a radium atom's nucleus. In a new study, they watched electrons in radium monofluoride pick up a tiny energy change that betrays what is happening deep in the core. The tests ran on a compact setup at CERN in Switzerland and not in a collider that stretches for miles. The result points to a practical way to map nuclear structure and to probe why the universe favors matter over antimatter. Radium monofluoride reveals ... [Read More]

Oct 29th, 2025 - Carbynes, or long linear carbon chains (LLCCs), have received significant attention in recent years due to their predicted exceptional properties. However, experimentally, their properties have been hard to probe due to their low stability. To improve stability, it is necessary to encapsulate LLCCs in small diameter carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Now, researchers have developed a new method to synthesize small diameter single-walled carbon nanowires (SWCNWs), featuring high-density LLCCs encapsulated ... [Read More]

Oct 22nd, 2025 - The nature of gravity — and whether it can be reconciled with quantum mechanics — is one of the biggest mysteries in physics. Most researchers think that at a fundamental level, all phenomena follow the principles of quantum physics, but those principles do not seem to be compatible with the accepted theory of gravity. For years, researchers have been proposing experiments to show whether gravity could produce a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement. Now, two theoretical ... [Read More]

Oct 21st, 2025 - It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. GET LIVE SCIENCE PLUS Enter your email below to get the latest science news every day. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter. By submitting your information, you confirm you are aged 16 or over, have read our and agree to the . Geographical rules apply. ... [Read More]

Oct 20th, 2025 - In the right combinations and conditions, two-dimensional materials can host intriguing and potentially valuable quantum phases, like superconductivity and unique forms of magnetism. Why they occur, and how they can be controlled, is of considerable interest among physicists and engineers. Research published in reveals a previously hidden feature that could explain how and why enigmatic quantum phases emerge. Using a new terahertz (THz) spectroscopic technique, the researchers revealed that ... [Read More]

Oct 18th, 2025 - The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of non-collisional cold dark matter (CDM), various models are considered: WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, with masses of around 100 GeV/c 2 ), primordial black holes, and ultralight axion-like particles (mass of 10 -22 to 1 eV/c 2 ). In the latter case, dark matter behaves like a wave, described by a Schrödinger equation, rather than as a collection of point particles. ... [Read More]

Oct 11th, 2025 - , Phys.org Quantum networks, systems consisting of connected quantum computers, quantum sensors or other quantum devices, hold the potential of enabling faster and safer communications. The establishment of these networks relies on a quantum phenomenon known as entanglement, which entails a link between particles or systems, with the quantum state of one influencing the other even when they are far apart. The atom-based qubits used to establish quantum networks so far operate at visible or ... [Read More]

Oct 10th, 2025 - A research team led by Prof. Lin Yiheng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), collaborating with Prof. Yuan Haidong from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, succeeded in generating multipartite quantum entangled states across two, three, and five modes using controlled dissipation as a resource. Their study is in Science Advances . Multimode entanglement is a key resource in quantum computation, communication, simulation, and sensing. One of the major challenges in ... [Read More]