A black hole is not sitting inside a lab in Manhattan, but some of its strangest physics just helped shape a tabletop ...
A major breakthrough in quantum technology has turned magnons, tiny magnetic waves once considered too short-lived for ...
Until recently, gravitational waves could have been a figment of Einstein’s imagination. Before they were detected, these ripples in spacetime existed only in the physicist’s general theory of ...
Whenever light interacts with matter, light appears to slow down. This is not a new observation and standard wave mechanics can describe most of these daily phenomena. For example, when light is ...
Can darkness really travel faster than light? A surprising new physics experiment suggests it can—at least in a very unusual way. Scientists observed dark regions within light waves moving faster than ...
As one of the key experimentalists to conceptualize and then build one of the biggest experiments in history, Nobel-prize-winning physicist Rainer Weiss’s path to success is remarkable. Now aged 90 he ...
Taken from the October 2018 issue of Physics World, which celebrates 30 years of the world’s best physics magazine. James Hough outlines the last 30 years of gravitational-wave astronomy, from ...
Quantum physics has a long history of producing results that seem impossible until someone finds a way to watch them happen ...
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