For decades, cobalt has served as a benchmark ferromagnet. Its crystal structure and magnetic properties have been extensively documented. However, the new findings show that cobalt hosts a rich ...

They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly ...

If true, the idea would blow past one of physics’ most sacred limits: that parallel versions of reality can never talk to ...

After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

A physician introduces a provocative theory linking informational overload and evolutionary mismatch to modern disease ...

Quantum physics may sound abstract, but Ph.D. candidates Kirsten Kanneworff and David Dechant show that quantum research can also be very concrete. Together, they are investigating how quantum ...

The unveiling by IBM of two new quantum supercomputers and Denmark's plans to develop "the world's most powerful commercial quantum computer" mark just two of the latest developments in quantum ...

The Gaza war has been catastrophic. On 7 October 2023, Hamas committed a monstrous crime against Israeli civilians. Israel’s subsequent destruction of Gaza has inflicted immense suffering on Gaza and ...

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 has derived a new formula for gluon interactions, overturning assumptions of zero amplitude and advancing theoretical physics.