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For the first time, light mimics a Nobel Prize quantum effect
Photons can now drift in quantized steps just like electrons in the quantum Hall effect, a Nobel-winning phenomenon never before seen in light.
Read full story →What Crystals Older Than the Sun Reveal About the Start of the Solar System
Presolar grains in meteorites older than the sun are rewriting theories of solar system birth, pointing to a Wolf-Rayet star rather than a supernova as the trigger.
Read full story →Physicists finally see strange magnetic vortices predicted 50 years ago
Scientists at UT Austin confirmed a 50-year-old prediction by observing magnetic vortex pairs forming in an atomically thin crystal, validating a landmark 1970s theory of 2D magnetism.
Read full story →Molecular 'catapult' fires electrons at the limits of physics
Cambridge researchers found that molecular vibrations act as a catapult to hurl electrons across solar materials in 18 femtoseconds, potentially unlocking more efficient solar energy harvesting.
Read full story →Material previously thought to be quantum is actually a new, non-quantum state of matter
Rice University found that a material long classified as a quantum spin liquid is actually an entirely new, non-quantum state of matter arising from competing magnetic forces.
Read full story →Fermilab-led study advances development of sophisticated quantum sensors to track high-energy particles and detect dark matter
Fermilab and collaborators demonstrated superconducting microwire sensors that can detect muons and other particles with unprecedented efficiency, advancing dark matter searches and future collider experiments.
Read full story →S&T physicist's research helps reveal previously unseen galaxies
Using line intensity mapping of ancient hydrogen light, researchers created a 3D map of the early universe revealing billions of previously invisible galaxies from 9-11 billion years ago.
Read full story →This record-breaking quadruple star system is so jam-packed it could fit between Jupiter and our sun
Astronomers discovered TIC 120362137, the most compact quadruple star system ever found, where three stars orbit within a space smaller than Mercury's orbit around the Sun.
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