Physics

Researchers find an Odd New Magnet that Magically Bends Light

Researchers find an Odd New Magnet that Magically Bends Light

Researchers cracked the mystery of altermagnets, materials with no net magnetization yet strange light-reflecting powers, by creating a new optical measurement method. Their findings confirmed…
Spintronics’s Future is unlocked by Tiny Magnetic Spirals

Spintronics’s Future is unlocked by Tiny Magnetic Spirals

Scientists in Korea have engineered magnetic nanohelices that can control electron spin with extraordinary precision at room temperature. By combining structural chirality and magnetism, these…
Neutrinos could be the Unseen Force behind Gold and Platinum

Neutrinos could be the Unseen Force behind Gold and Platinum

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, showers of radiation, and even…
Scientists have Finally solved the Puzzle of what causes Lightning

Scientists have Finally solved the Puzzle of what causes Lightning

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for…
For the First Time, Scientists have demonstrated a basic Quantum Law

For the First Time, Scientists have demonstrated a basic Quantum Law

Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to…
Helium-3’s Charge Radius is determined with amazing precision

Helium-3’s Charge Radius is determined with amazing precision

A research team led by Professor Randolf Pohl from the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has achieved a significant breakthrough in…
Researchers Record the Formation of Ultrafast Laser Pulses in real time

Researchers Record the Formation of Ultrafast Laser Pulses in real time

Scientists have captured the moment a laser “comes to life”—and what they found challenges long-held beliefs. Using a special technique to film laser light in…
Geometric Material Design makes Bicycle Helmets Safer

Geometric Material Design makes Bicycle Helmets Safer

By using new geometric shapes in the shock-absorbing material, researchers at the Universities of Gothenburg and Isfahan have developed a bicycle helmet that provides better…
Magnetic Microalgae on a Quest to Develop into Robots

Magnetic Microalgae on a Quest to Develop into Robots

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart developed a biohybrid micro swimmer covered with magnetic material, whose…
A New Method for Observing Electrons in Motion

A New Method for Observing Electrons in Motion

Electrons oscillate around the nucleus of an atom on extremely short timescales, typically completing a cycle in just a few hundred attoseconds (one attosecond is…
Researchers Capture Rapid Choral Dance of Electrons on Super-small Particles

Researchers Capture Rapid Choral Dance of Electrons on Super-small Particles

As reported in Science Advances, an international team of researchers observed how electrons, excited by ultrafast light pulses, danced in unison around a particle less than…
Scientists Discover Heat-resistant Kelp Strain

Scientists Discover Heat-resistant Kelp Strain

Kelp is being negatively impacted by climate change. Warming ocean temperatures have led to shorter growing and harvesting seasons, including for sugar kelp, one of…
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