Highest intensity laser ever
Physicists demonstrate record-breaking laser pulse.
After a decade of work, researchers at the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS) at the Institute for Basic ...
Physics
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Measuring lead nucleus tells of neutron stars
A neutron skin behaviour that affects atoms and stars.
Physicists have just collected the most accurate measurement of the thickness of the neutron ‘skin’ of a lead (Pb) nu...
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A mini Large Hadron Collider?
Particle accelerators aren’t all gargantuan bits of kit: there’s a room-sized one in Melbourne.
On 7 January, physicist Dr Suzie Sheehy was up before the sun had risen. That day, two trucks showed up on the ste...
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Research
Exciting exciton breakthrough
First ever image of an electron’s orbit inside an exciton.
Scientists have just experimentally measured the wave function of an exciton, and they’re excited about it – because ...
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Research
Blood droplets travel in all directions in crime scenes
New analysis examines the physics of blood from close-range gunshot wounds.
Studying a crime scene isn't easy, especially because blood droplets don’t just fly away from the wound, according to...
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Conversation
New warp drive research dashes faster-than-light travel dreams
But reveals stranger possibilities.
By Sam Baron, Australian Catholic University In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology th...
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First entanglement-based quantum network
Dutch researchers build the basis for the internet of the future.
A team researchers from quantum-computing company QuTech in the Netherlands has established the first multi-node quan...
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Good (spider) vibrations
Scientists create music from arachnid webs.
The fascinating properties of spider webs could now be explored in an entirely new dimension: through music. The e...
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Could muons rewrite the laws of physics?
New experiment hints that subatomic particles are behaving weirdly, challenging the Standard Model.
Muons don’t seem to be obeying the standard laws of physics, which suggests we don’t yet fully understand the standar...
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Robert Watson-Watt rides the waves
The British physicist who became known as the ‘inventor of radar’.
In April 1935, British physicist Robert Watson-Watt was granted a patent for his design of a radio system for detecti...
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Scientists make antimatter laser
Anti-matter particles can be cooled to near absolute zero.
Researchers from the CERN-based Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA) collaboration have announced that a war ...
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Magnetic fields mapped around black hole
World-spanning telescope gives new view of supermassive black hole.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has just snapped a new image of the massive object lurking at the centre of the Mes...