Physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in the lab
More than 50 years ago, physicist Sir Roger Penrose proposed a remarkable idea: under the right conditions, it might be possible to extract energy from a rapidly spinning black hole.…
Oxford physicists just made Schrödinger’s cat even stranger
Researchers at the University of Oxford have created a new type of quantum superposition, a phenomenon often associated with the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment. Unlike previous versions, these newly…
Physicists discover quantum particles that break the rules of reality
Physicists have traditionally sorted all elementary particles in our three-dimensional universe into two categories: bosons and fermions. Bosons mostly include particles that carry forces, such as photons, while fermions make…
Physicists challenge a 200-year-old law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale
Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have demonstrated that the Carnot principle, a foundational rule of thermodynamics, does not fully apply at the atomic scale when particles are physically…
A new superconductor breaks rules physicists thought were fixed
Something unexpected is happening inside a material called platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi2). According to a new study from researchers at IFW Dresden and the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, this shiny gray crystal…
Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all
The idea that our universe might be nothing more than an elaborate computer simulation has been a favorite theme in science fiction for decades. Yet new research from UBC Okanagan…
MIT physicists just found a way to see inside atoms
Physicists at MIT have introduced a technique to study the interior of an atom’s nucleus by relying on the atom’s own electrons as “messengers” inside a molecule. In research published…
Rutgers physicists just discovered a strange new state of matter
Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist – one that is different from the usual states of solid, liquid, gas or plasma – at the interface of…
Breakthrough battery lets physicists reverse entanglement—and rewrite quantum law
Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum…
Physicists uncover hidden order in the quantum world through deconfined quantum critical points
In the intricate world of quantum physics, where particles interact in ways that seem to defy the standard rules of space and time, lies a profound mystery that continues to…