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High-level backing “Quantum Metrology: From Foundations to the Future” was held at NPL as part of the global celebrations for the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Above: Lord Vallance, UK Minister for Science, Innovation, Research and Nuclear, opens the workshop with the official launch of the NMI-Q [...]

Massively quantum: The University of Vienna’s Multi-Scale Cluster Interference Experiment (MUSCLE), where researchers detected quantum interference in massive nanoparticles. (Courtesy: S Pedalino / Uni Wien) Classical mechanics describes our everyday world of macroscopic objects very well. Quantum mechanics is similarly good at describing physics on the atomic scale. The boundary between [...]

A supermassive black hole with a case of cosmic indigestion has been burping out the remains of a shredded star for four years—and it's still going strong, new research led by a University of Oregon astrophysicist shows. [...]

Using artificial intelligence (AI) increases scientists’ productivity and impact but collectively leads to a shrinking of research focus. That is according to an analysis of more than 41 million research papers by scientist in China and the US, which finds that scientists who produce AI-augmented research also progress faster in [...]

Hints of non-gravitational interactions between dark matter and “relic” neutrinos in the early universe have emerged in a study of astronomical data from different periods of cosmic history. The study was carried out by cosmologists in Poland, the UK and China, and team leader Sebastian Trojanowski of Poland’s NCBJ and [...]

Quantum entanglement is a uniquely quantum link between particles that makes their properties inseparable. It underlies the power of many quantum technologies from secure communication to quantum computing, by enabling correlations impossible in classical physics. Entanglement nevertheless remains poorly understood and is therefore the subject of a lot of research, both [...]

Author(s): Charles DayA crystal whose arrangement of atoms lacks chirality can nevertheless host a chiral electronic state.[Physics 19, s17] Published Wed Feb 04, 2026 [...]

Author(s): Ryan WilkinsonBy exploiting defects in a superconductor, scientists have observed the switching of a material’s two superconducting states into one.[Physics 19, s14] Published Wed Feb 04, 2026 [...]

When we interact with everyday objects, we take for granted that physical systems naturally settle into stable, predictable states. A cup of coffee cools down. A playground swing slows down after being pushed.  Quantum systems, however, behave very differently. These systems can exist in multiple states at once, and their evolution [...]

Loss of a limb can significantly impact a person’s independence and quality-of-life, with arm amputations particularly impeding routine daily activities. Prosthetic limbs can restore some of the lost function, but often rely on surface electrodes with low signal quality. A research team at the University of Michigan has now shown [...]

Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we've lacked a precise picture of what impact they have on their surroundings. However, a University of Chicago-led group of scientists has used data from a recently launched satellite to reveal our clearest look yet into [...]

Author(s): Marric StephensFabricating some structures using niobium instead of aluminum could lead to more resilient superconducting quantum computers.[Physics 19, s20] Published Tue Feb 03, 2026 [...]

The light from MoM-z14 galaxy has been traveling through space for about 13.5 billion years. Rohan Naidu, Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics, astrophysics, NASA Hubble Fellow https://gizmodo.com/the-age-of-the-most-distant-galaxy-ever-seen-barely-makes-any-sense-2000715503 The post The Age of the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen Barely Makes Any Sense appeared first on MIT Physics. [...]

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an Earth quasi-satellite whose reported spectrum resembles lunar material and which is a target of China's Tianwen-2 [...]

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The results shed new light on how the chemical building blocks of life may have formed long before Earth existed. Linda Losurdo, a Ph.D. candidate in materials [...]

Author(s): Vittorio SomàCalculations show how the mysterious “magic numbers” that stabilize nuclear structures emerge naturally from nuclear forces—once these are described with appropriate spatial resolution.[Physics 19, 11] Published Mon Feb 02, 2026 [...]

Can scenarios inspired by science fiction help anticipate the effects of future technologies?[Physics 19, 15] Published Mon Feb 02, 2026 [...]

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there. Astronomers have detected powerful stellar flares erupting from stars near the supermassive black hole at the center of the [...]

Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has solved a fundamental mathematical problem that had obstructed the interpretation of exoplanet atmospheres for decades. In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, Gkouvelis presents the first closed-form analytical theory of transmission spectroscopy [...]

Vol. 70610. Planets, planetary systems, and small bodies Pre-perihelion evolution of the NiI/FeI abundance ratio in the coma of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: From extreme to normal by Damien Hutsemékers, Jean Manfroid, Emmanuël Jehin, et al. 2026, A&A, 706, A43 Discovered on July 1, 2025, and with prediscovery observations in June, 3I/Atlas [...]

Author(s): Michael SchirberUsing a camera with 2-picosecond time resolution, researchers show that the atoms in a laser-induced plasma are more highly ionized than theory predicts.[Physics 19, 13] Published Fri Jan 30, 2026 [...]

By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing. MIT researchers have designed silicon structures that can perform calculations in an electronic device using excess heat instead of electricity. These tiny structures could someday enable more energy-efficient computation. In this computing [...]