Discovery reshapes our understanding of heat transfer in extreme materials, with implications for inertial confinement fusion and high-energy-density science ...

A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. Dark matter, the ...

Physicists have transformed laser light into a supersolid, marking an entirely new process for achieving this mysterious ...

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For decades, people have been trying to directly detect dark matter: the missing mass in our universe. Now, there's a new, ...

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Condensed matter physics is one of the largest, most active branches of contemporary physics research. Simply speaking, scientists in this field study the properties and behaviour of solid and ...

This pioneering experiment, already competitive with major particle accelerator studies, demonstrates that XFEL technology could be a game-changer in particle physics. Beyond this, axions are also ...

Microsoft says its researchers have created a new quantum computer processor that relies on a never-before-seen state of matter. The technological leap—called Majorana 1—represents a major ...

Rather than holding matter as a solid, a liquid or a gas, Microsoft says the chip enables what's known as a "topological superconductivity." Microsoft has debuted an experimental new computer chip ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford, together with colleagues at the UK Science and Technology ... that may make up the dark matter of the Universe. The experiment is described in a study ...