Physics

• Press Release Andreas Kaufer appointed as next ESO Director General 27 October 2025 The Council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has appointed Andreas Kaufer to be the

• Press Release Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate 2 October 2025 Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue pl

• It’s April 2025, and the NSF-DOE Vera C. • Rubin Observatory control room at the Department of Energy’sSLAC National Accelerator Laboratoryis buzzing with activity. • On the Menl

• At this very moment, somewhere in the universe, a star is about to die. • Well, not ‘die,’ exactly. • As PhD studentDavid Sweeney and astronomy professor Peter Tuthill of the Uni

• Press Release Astronomers spot mysterious gamma-ray explosion, unlike any detected before 9 September 2025 Astronomers have detected an explosion of gamma rays that repeated seve

• The macroscopic realm, which consists of everything from falling balls to orbiting planets, can be explained by the laws of classical mechanics. • When nature reaches the smalles

• Physicist Huilin Qu vividly remembers the 2012 announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that helps explain the origin of mass. • The spokespeople

• Dale Carter, Black Hills photographer, captured 2002 Grizzly Gulch wildfire from above, front-page coverage. • He photographed scientists at Lead’s 2001 conference, documenting g

• BASE collaboration trapped an antiproton, oscillating between two quantum states for nearly a minute. • First demonstration of an antimatter qubit, opening doors for precise matt

• Daniel Kleppner, MIT professor emeritus, passed away at 92, leaving legacy in atomic physics. • Co‑invented hydrogen maser atomic clock, advancing precision timekeeping and GPS t

• Superfluid stiffness quantifies how easily electron pairs flow without resistance. • MIT and Harvard scientists directly measured this property in magic‑angle graphene. • Magic‑a

• Superposition is simply a linear combination of states, like adding vectors in linear algebra. • The concept can be visualized without math using everyday analogies, such as over