9+ hour, 14+ min ago   (417+ words) Physicists have uncovered an in-plane Hall response that overturns a century-old assumption about how this famous electrical effect works. The discovery could eventually make multidirectional magnetic sensing possible with one tiny device....

17+ hour, 25+ min ago   (509+ words) A mysterious signal deep underground may offer LUX-ZEPLIN its most intriguing clue to dark matter yet. For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to identify dark matter, the mysterious material believed to account for about 85% of all matter in…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (418+ words) Astronomers once thought winds generated by supermassive black holes affected only their host galaxies, but a recent study found that their energy can also reach surrounding galaxies. Winds from a supermassive black hole can carry energy far beyond the galaxy…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1070+ words) Princeton’s PACMAN AI can control fusion plasma in milliseconds and predict dangerous instabilities before they start. In some fusion energy systems, particles can reach temperatures hotter than the center of the Sun. The challenge is keeping that extreme plasma under…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (348+ words) Physicists around the world remain deeply divided on key mysteries of the universe, from dark matter to quantum gravity. The standard cosmological model failed to gain majority support, and no leading theory dominated the survey results. The largest survey ever…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (739+ words) From tiny glass beads and a map of the Moon to Mercury, a new study uses an indirect method to determine the silicon dioxide content of Mercury’s surface. Mercury’s surface appears to contain substantially less silicon dioxide than researchers previously…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (16+ words) An ultra-clean crystal surface allowed individual molecules to preserve quantum coherence at the fundamental Fourier limit....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (30+ words) Optical structures based on the Smith hat produced unusual light patterns that reflected their lack of mirror symmetry and changed with light direction and polarization....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (446+ words) 3D atomic imaging of advanced materials provides new insights into transitions such as liquids freezing into solids....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (22+ words) A new method maps the subtle gravitational wave vibrations produced by merging black holes, potentially enabling more precise tests of general relativity....