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The James Webb Space Telescope has identified XLSSC 122, a galaxy cluster 10.4 billion light-years away, as the most distant known to exhibit strong gravitational lensing. Its dense core and mature structure, observed during cosmic noon, challenge current models of how massive cosmic structures form.
Researchers used a silicon-nitride photonic chip to transfer the topology of a single-photon quantum skyrmion to an entangled photon pair.
The first particle accelerator, built by Cockcroft and Walton in 1932, used 800,000 volts to split lithium atoms.
A quantum photonic processor launched in June 2025 has successfully observed two-photon interference in low Earth orbit.
ICFO researchers stored single photons for up to 180 microseconds using spin rephasing in a praseodymium-doped crystal quantum memory.
A 13-ion trapped-ion quantum simulator modeled string breaking, a process analogous to quark dynamics and particle formation in the early universe.
A Duke University-led team has used a trapped-ion quantum simulator to observe string-breaking dynamics.
Stanford University researchers have directly recorded real-time quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator.
Physicists have demonstrated a passive swimmer made of quantum light moving upstream by breaking Newton's action-reaction principle.
A quantum test on the China Space Station achieved record precision for the weak equivalence principle.
The CMS collaboration reports a search for new particles decaying into pairs of jets containing bottom quarks, using 13 TeV proton-proton collision data.
Theoretical physicist Jonathan Halliwell explains how decoherence and the 'histories' approach resolve foundational quantum paradoxes.
Researchers have directly observed the discrete quantum jumps of phonons in a mechanical resonator for the first time, using a superconducting qubit.
A new self-supervised learning method improves the reconstruction of heavy resonance masses in particle physics experiments.
Researchers have discovered that optical structures based on the aperiodic 'Smith hat' monotile twist laser light into chiral, pinwheel-like diffraction patterns.
Neutron spectroscopy reveals a quasiparticle energy crossover from deconfined spinons to bound triplons in the spin-Peierls material CuGeO3.
Harvard researchers have protected a diamond-based qubit using microscopic sound waves, extending its quantum coherence time by roughly threefold.
Researchers have used a 104-qubit quantum processor to simulate the inelastic production of a heavier particle from a collision of two light particles.
New theoretical work indicates that certain quantum collapse models, if correct, imply a minuscule intrinsic uncertainty in time itself.
NIST researchers have used ultra-cold transition edge sensors to measure X-ray emissions from nuclear materials with unprecedented accuracy.
Sandia National Laboratories scientists have trapped cesium atoms on a 420-nanometer fiber using only 5 milliwatts of power.
A 300 TeV photon from a distant gamma-ray burst survived a 2-billion-light-year journey that should have destroyed it.
A particle physicist is developing quantum algorithms to search for anomalies in data from the upgraded Large Hadron Collider.
The LHCb experiment has deployed new neural networks to identify muons and electrons in real-time during Run 3.
Researchers applied an unsupervised neural spline flow model to CMS Open Data, identifying dijet events with low likelihood scores.
A microscopic transport model study shows many protons stopped at mid-rapidity in low-energy heavy-ion collisions originate from initial neutrons.
A physics experiment using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance and a SQUID magnetometer has searched for ultralight axion-like dark matter.
Researchers have built an eight-bit cascaded random access quantum memory, a key component absent in current quantum processors.
Researchers have identified three distinct quantum phases in the superconductor K2Cr3As3.
The CMS collaboration reports a significant negative azimuthal asymmetry in muons from coherently photoproduced J/ψ mesons in lead-lead collisions at 5.36 TeV.
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise.
MIT scientists have created a new qubit architecture that separates data storage and interaction functions.
Researchers used soft nanoconfinement in phytantriol membranes to prevent ice formation and observe water's transition to a glassy state.
Physicists report the first measurement of near-threshold J/ψ particle production from a neutron target.
Researchers have used a commercial CMOS camera to accurately count antiprotons in the GBAR antihydrogen experiment.
The Department of Energy explains how quantum computers, using qubits, could solve complex problems beyond the reach of current supercomputers.
Yale physicist Sarah Demers discusses the U.S. Department of Energy's use of AI to optimize the Mu2e experiment.
Researchers have experimentally demonstrated a secure position verification protocol that combines quantum optics and relativity.
The BESIII Collaboration has used quantum-entangled Lambda-anti-Lambda pairs to make the world's most precise measurement of the Lambda hyperon's electric dipole moment.
A Stanford team created a quantum-optical spin glass from atoms and photons that functions as an associative memory.
The GlueX Collaboration at Jefferson Lab has discovered evidence for two new structures, Y(2240) and X(1830).
A new MIT study shows a theoretical proposal for a laser-like neutrino beam is impossible due to the particles' high-energy recoil and quantum nature.
Physicists propose GRENDEL, a new detector in the CMS drainage gallery to search for neutral long-lived particles in the 0.2-15 GeV mass range.
The XENON Collaboration has directly observed low-energy solar neutrinos scattering off electrons for the first time using the XENONnT detector in Italy.
A new analysis in Nature Physics identifies synthesis dependence as a major obstacle in quantum materials research.
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter experiment has identified a single anomalous particle interaction in its latest data analysis.
A team of five mathematicians has proven the 'sharpness conjecture' for percolation on infinite transitive graphs, solving a decades-old puzzle about the speed of phase transitions in networks.
A team of five mathematicians has proven the supercritical sharpness conjecture for transitive graphs.
A theoretical model based on the Color Glass Condensate and saturation approach has been tested against the full set of HERA collider data.
Modeling shows gas-filled hollow-core fibers can translate quantum light between wavelengths while preserving crucial phase information.