physics

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The first nuclear clocks are ticking in Vienna and Beijing after a 50-year chase

Two independent teams have locked lasers to the nucleus of thorium-229 and kept time with it, one clock running untouched for more than a day. They are not yet better than atomic clocks, but they open a new…

Science 2 weeks ago

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 rewards a telescope buried 2 km deep in South Pole ice

Francis Halzen wins the prize alone for IceCube, a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice fitted with 5,160 light…

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A falling atom obeyed Einstein’s gravity rule in the quantum world for the first time

An international team built a quantum interferometer, split a single rubidium atom into two simultaneous paths — one…

Science 2 months ago

The vacuum was supposed to be empty — a magnetar’s X-rays just proved it isn’t

For the first time, NASA's IXPE telescope has measured X-ray polarization around a magnetar at nearly three times…

Science 5 months ago

Cobalt hides a network of quantum states that survive at room temperature

Cobalt sits in countless hard drives and electric motors, and physicists thought they understood it. A new map…

Science 5 months ago

Physicists reversed the way energy flows through turbulence, bending an 80-year rule

Turbulence was thought to carry energy in one fixed direction set by the shape of the flow. A…

Science 5 months ago

Physicists caught a crystal’s atoms reversing their spin for the first time

Inside a sliver of bismuth selenide, the rotation of the atomic lattice flipped direction as it passed from…

Science 4 years ago

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who changed the face of modern science. Fermi was born in…

Science 4 years ago

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Most people who have studied science or history in school may be familiar with his name, as he…

Science 4 years ago

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, a name that immediately evokes images of genius and scientific breakthroughs, is undeniably one of the…