Photographer Chris Elkinton set off one windy December day to Cape Disappointment State Park in Washington, hoping to capture images of the rough, roiling seas and colliding waves during a “king tide.

Using sheets of light to corral waves of ultracold atoms, researchers have created an experimental platform for studying the event horizons of black holes. Making waves. Researchers have created a ...

Researchers have used radio observations of rapidly spinning neutron stars to search for signals from supermassive black hole pairs at the dawn of galaxy formation. In our lifetimes, an amazing thing ...

A decades-old neutrino mystery might be solved not by undiscovered physics but by improved calculations. For more than 30 years, scientists have found that roughly 20% fewer electron neutrinos are ...

A ring of optical fiber can be made to host phenomena that originated in the realm of high-energy physics. Yang and his colleagues achieved their feat using a platform based on fiber ring resonators, ...

Different analyses of gravitational-wave observations are converging on evidence for a distinct population of massive black hole binaries produced through repeated mergers. Figure 1: Hundreds of ...

Figure 1: Barrios Hita and colleagues have explored a new path for developing a formulation of quantum theory that doesn’t rely on complex numbers [5]. In standard quantum theory, every physical ...

Through a quantum-switch experiment, researchers attempt to reveal “indefinite causal order”—a quantum phenomenon involving events in a before-and-after superposition. Artistic rendition of the ...

The new map of the Universe’s expansion history released by the DESI Collaboration offers hints at a breakdown of the standard model of cosmology. Figure 1: A slice of DESI’s first three years of data ...

Two direct-detection experiments see no evidence of a signal reported by their predecessor. In 1997, the DAMA/NaI experiment observed a signal whose annual variability was suggestive of dark matter.

A Bose-Einstein condensate of radioactive atoms could turn into a source of intense, coherent, and directional neutrino beams, according to a theoretical proposal. Figure 1: Top: At high temperature, ...

A high-resolution imaging system captures distant objects by shining laser light on them and detecting the reflected light. Seeing the small picture. The remote-imaging system (left) shoots eight ...