physics

A team at the Texas Center for Superconductivity used a pressure-quenching technique on a mercury-based copper-oxide ceramic to achieve a transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a record that had stood since 1993.

Stockholm University physicists used ultra-fast X-ray pulses to confirm a second critical point in supercooled water at -63 degrees Celsius and 1,000 atmospheres, explaining why water behaves unlike any other liquid.

The BASE experiment at CERN successfully moved 92 antiprotons in a portable cryogenic trap across the laboratory's campus, demonstrating that antimatter can survive road transport and paving the way for precision measurements at facilities across Europe.

Researchers use pressure quenching to lock in a record superconducting transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a 33-year-old record.

The CMS Collaboration at CERN has detected wakes left by quarks speeding through quark-gluon plasma, providing the first direct evidence that the matter filling the universe in its first microseconds behaved as a nearly perfect liquid rather than a gas of free particles.

ETH Zurich and University of Basel researchers permanently reversed a ferromagnet's polarity using only laser light in twisted bilayer molybdenum ditelluride, published in Nature.

2026 marks the transition from noisy quantum experiments to error-corrected commercial systems, with neutral atom platforms from QuEra, Atom Computing, and Pasqal leading the charge.

A QuTech team achieves first single-shot parity readout of Majorana qubits using quantum capacitance, demonstrating millisecond coherence and solving a key bottleneck for topological quantum computers.

A new class of high-entropy boride magnets made from earth-abundant metals achieves magnetic properties approaching rare-earth levels, offering a potential path to breaking dependence on Chinese-controlled supply chains for EVs, wind turbines, and electronics.

Stanford researchers demonstrate a scalable optical cavity system enabling parallel readout of quantum bits, with prototypes already exceeding 500 cavities.

Clearest gravitational wave ever detected from black hole merger validates Einstein's theory with unprecedented precision