The Latest Breaking News on Physics

A new type of chemistry performed at very cold temperatures on very small particles enables quick, precise reactions.

On International Left-handers' Day, we celebrate left-handedness in a world dominated by righties. Our planet rotates from west to east, and the solar system is left-handed. Amino acids, the basic building blocks of life, are left-handed, and the heart is on the left side. Neutrinos are left-handed, and the weak…

A research team with MIT has unveiled a functional superconducting diode design that enables never-before-seen efficiencies and that's easily manufacturable, opening up the door for more power-efficient electronics.

It's been a rough few days in the condensed matter physics realm following claims of the world's first room-temperature superconductor being achieved. However, work to verify and replicate the results is catapulting forward, and two disparate teams have already shown promising results.

There are many technologies that need signals to be amplified, and are thus susceptible to strong back-reflections. They will all benefit from the use of non-reciprocity, a new and emerging area of physics research that is focused on preventing back-reflection, backpropagation, and, in general, on allow electromagnetic signals to travel…

A recent study found that the Subaru telescope’s new measurement of the amount and type of helium in faraway galaxies may offer a solution to the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem

Physicists use extreme precision tests to search for flaws in the Standard Model. A new study used a strong electric field in the molecule hafnium fluoride to measure the electric dipole moment of its valence electrons, and concluded by finding no evidence of 'new physics'. This result precludes the existence…

Rosatom at the Forum for Future Technologies in Moscow, Russia showcased what it says is a working, 16-qubit quantum computer based on trapped ions. It seems that Russia isn't as far behind the quantum times as some might have hoped.

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have managed to entangle a record 51 qubits. More importantly, the qubits weren't just entangled in pairs, but as a single system, a required step on the road to more useful quantum computing.