Physics news: quantum experiments, cosmology, and the fundamental forces shaping our universe.
Ask a physicist how the universe works, and you might be surprised by the answer – or rather, by how many different answers you get. A massive worldwide survey of physicists has revealed that the experts studying the cosmos deeply…
A magnetar — a neutron star with the most extreme magnetic field known in the universe — has apparently done what no laboratory could: revealed signs of a quantum effect that Werner Heisenberg predicted nearly 90 years ago. Its light…
Dark matter hunters may have finally seen something worth losing sleep over. The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment — a vat of liquid xenon sitting nearly a mile underground in the former Homestake gold mine in South Dakota — has detected a…
One of Einstein’s deepest ideas has just been put to its most striking test yet. Physicists report they have directly observed a long-predicted quantum effect of gravity — capturing, for the first time, gravity acting on matter in a distinctly…