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Physicists at the University of Warwick have mapped the internal structure of a widely studied cuprate superconductor and found it is far from the uniform crystal the field has assumed for roughly…
Stanford physicists have directly observed a vibrating mechanical device flipping abruptly between discrete energy levels, reporting the first quantum jumps of sound ever seen in a massive object.…
A team at TU Wien's Atominstitut in Vienna and Germany's Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt has excited the nucleus of thorium-229 with a laser that runs steadily instead of in pulses. The power…
The BASE collaboration has driven 92 trapped antiprotons out of CERN's Antimatter Factory by truck and brought them back without losing one. Antiprotons are the antimatter twins of protons, and the…
On September 1, 2026, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration reported an unusual event that its underground detector had recorded on June 16, 2023. The detector is designed to search for WIMPs:…
The ATLAS collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has tested whether pairs of Z bosons produced when a Higgs boson decays are quantum-mechanically linked, and reports that the data fit poorly…
A picosecond is a trillionth of a second. Light itself crosses only about a third of a millimeter in one. Inside the carbon-based solids chemists want to use to make hydrogen from sunlight, that is…
Lanthanum hydride is not a material you can hold in your hand. To make it, you squeeze a speck of lanthanum and hydrogen between the polished tips of two diamonds until the pressure passes a million…
Physicists squeezing water between diamond tips and heating it with lasers report that the ice's oxygen atoms settle into a hexagonal stacking pattern at conditions like those deep inside Uranus and…
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have measured the X-rays given off by uranium, neptunium and plutonium with less uncertainty than earlier measurements, using…
The BESIII collaboration has measured |Vus|, the number that sets how often a strange quark turns into an up quark, from the decay of a short-lived particle called the lambda. The value, published…
For billions of years, the natural world has acted as a silent engineer. It methodically discarded ineffective solutions and refined the good ones. As a result, these mechanisms became so effective…