In 1801, Thomas Young performed a deceptively simple experiment that changed physics forever. By shining light through two narrow slits…
Category: Physics
Scientists Discover Way to Reverse Spin Currents in Graphene—Without Using Magnets
A quiet revolution is unfolding at the atomic scale—one that could change how our devices store information, process signals, and…
Scientists Unveil a New Theory That Solves a 100-Year-Old Mystery of Sound in Solids
Every solid object—from the glass in your window to the metal in your phone—contains a hidden orchestra. Within it, trillions…
Is Reality Just Geometry? Scientists Say the Universe May Be Shaped by Hidden Dimensions
What if everything we see—the stars, the particles, even the forces that hold the universe together—was not the result of…
Scientists Create a New Phase of Matter That Exists in Both Order and Chaos
Imagine a material that keeps time not by ticking like a clock, but by dancing—sometimes predictably, sometimes unpredictably, yet always…
For the First Time, Scientists Watch Atoms Move in a 100-Tesla Magnetic Field
When we think of magnets, we usually imagine the small, familiar ones on our refrigerator doors. Yet the magnetic fields…
Scientists Finally Measure the Hidden Energy That Makes Superconductors Work
More than forty years ago, the discovery of high-temperature superconductors sent shockwaves through the world of science. These strange materials…
Scientists Build a €25,000 Open-Source Device That Lets Anyone See the Invisible
In laboratories around the world, scientists use light to reveal the invisible—to watch plants breathe, proteins change shape, and solar…
Scientists Discover the “Einstein-Rosen Caterpillar” — A Bizarre, Bumpy Wormhole Inside Black Holes
No telescope will ever reveal what lies inside a black hole. Light itself, that swift messenger of the cosmos, cannot…
The Material That Thinks Like Light: Scientists Discover ‘Gyromorphs’ That Could Revolutionize Computing Forever
For over half a century, computers have been powered by the flow of electricity—tiny streams of electrons racing through silicon…
Scientists Capture Light’s “Chaotic Dance” Inside 3D Microcavities for the First Time
Light has always fascinated humanity. It reveals the world around us, yet its true nature remains elusive. Beneath the glow…
You Are Quantumly Entangled with the Stars—New Study Reveals Mind-Bending Truth About Reality
At first glance, the world appears beautifully local. A falling apple obeys gravity. Light ripples through space at a constant…
The Problem So Hard That Not Even Quantum Computers Can Solve It
It is easy to imagine quantum computers as near-magical machines—devices so powerful that they can solve problems beyond the reach…
Scientists Create a “Quantum Brain” Made of Light and Atoms
In a quiet lab at Stanford University, light and atoms dance together inside a pair of mirrors. The light bounces,…
Scientists Prove the Universe Isn’t a Simulation — and the Reason Will Blow Your Mind
For decades, the idea that we might be living inside a computer simulation has captured the imagination of philosophers, scientists,…
Scientists Discover “Impossible” Metal Behavior Inside an Insulator—And No One Knows Why
When Lu Li, a professor of physics at the University of Michigan, began his latest research project, he did not…
Physicists Discover Electrons That ‘Sing’ in Harmony—And Their Song Changes with Shape
In the quiet corridors of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, something…
New Study Claims Entanglement No Longer Proves Gravity Is Quantum — Did We Misread Feynman?
For more than a century, physics has been haunted by a stubborn fracture at its foundation. On one side stands…
Quantum Chip Beats the World’s Fastest Supercomputer by 13,000× — and Solves a Real Physics Problem
For years, quantum computing has lived in the realm of promise — a breathtaking theory waiting to prove its worth…
Physicists May Have Discovered an Entirely New State of Matter — And It Forms at the Coldest Temperatures in the Universe
There is a regime of nature in which motion stops matter from revealing what it is. Most of the time,…
Scientists Spin a “Quantum Paradox” — Supersolid Starts Dancing in Sync Under Rotation
Most states of matter obey a kind of loyalty: a solid holds shape, a fluid flows, and a superfluid flows…
Physicists Catch Photons “Choosing Sides” — Light Particles Seen Following the Crowd for the First Time
If photons could speak, they would not tell stories of heroism or independence. They would talk about consensus. Unlike the…