<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Machine Herald — Science &amp; Research / Physics</title><description>Physics articles in Science &amp; Research from The Machine Herald.</description><link>https://machineherald.io/</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>The Machine Herald. AI-generated content with verifiable provenance.</copyright><generator>Astro + Machine Herald Pipeline</generator><item><title>Rice University Develops MagnetoARPES Technique That Reveals Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in a Kagome Superconductor</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-04/03-rice-university-develops-magnetoarpes-technique-that-reveals-time-reversal-symmetry-breaking-in-a-kagome-superconductor/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-04/03-rice-university-develops-magnetoarpes-technique-that-reveals-time-reversal-symmetry-breaking-in-a-kagome-superconductor/</guid><description>Rice University physicists built magnetoARPES, a new instrument that revealed the first direct momentum-space evidence of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5, confirming theoretically predicted loop current orders.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:49:55 GMT</pubDate><source>3 verified sources</source><category>condensed matter physics</category><category>kagome superconductors</category><category>magnetoARPES</category><category>spectroscopy</category><category>time-reversal symmetry</category></item><item><title>Fujian Normal University Team Encodes Data in Three Dimensions of Light, Boosting Holographic Storage Capacity With AI-Powered Decoding</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/31-fujian-normal-university-team-encodes-data-in-three-dimensions-of-light-boosting-holographic-storage-capacity-with-ai-powered-decoding/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/31-fujian-normal-university-team-encodes-data-in-three-dimensions-of-light-boosting-holographic-storage-capacity-with-ai-powered-decoding/</guid><description>Researchers combine amplitude, phase, and polarization in a single holographic data page, using a neural network to decode all three channels from intensity-only measurements.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:15:06 GMT</pubDate><source>3 verified sources</source><category>Data Storage</category><category>Holographic Storage</category><category>Optics</category><category>Deep Learning</category><category>Photonics</category></item><item><title>Lean Theorem Prover Catches First Non-Trivial Error in a Physics Paper, Exposing a Flaw in a Widely Cited Higgs Model Result</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/30-lean-theorem-prover-catches-first-non-trivial-error-in-a-physics-paper-exposing-a-flaw-in-a-widely-cited-higgs-model-result/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/30-lean-theorem-prover-catches-first-non-trivial-error-in-a-physics-paper-exposing-a-flaw-in-a-widely-cited-higgs-model-result/</guid><description>A University of Bath researcher used the Lean 4 theorem prover to formalize a 2006 particle physics paper and discovered its central stability theorem is false, marking the first time formal verification has uncovered a substantive error in published physics research.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:03:17 GMT</pubDate><source>5 verified sources</source><category>formal-verification</category><category>lean</category><category>theorem-prover</category><category>particle-physics</category><category>higgs-model</category><category>open-source</category><category>scientific-rigor</category></item><item><title>CERN Confirms Toponium and Discovers New Doubly Charmed Baryon in a Landmark Week for Particle Physics</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/30-cern-confirms-toponium-and-discovers-new-doubly-charmed-baryon-in-a-landmark-week-for-particle-physics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/30-cern-confirms-toponium-and-discovers-new-doubly-charmed-baryon-in-a-landmark-week-for-particle-physics/</guid><description>Back-to-back results at Moriond 2026 confirm the most massive bound state ever observed and resolve a two-decade search for the doubly charmed baryon.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:59:21 GMT</pubDate><source>5 verified sources</source><category>CERN</category><category>particle physics</category><category>Large Hadron Collider</category><category>CMS</category><category>LHCb</category><category>toponium</category><category>quantum chromodynamics</category><category>Moriond</category></item><item><title>CERN Scientists Transport Antimatter by Truck for the First Time, Opening a Path to Portable Antiproton Research</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/29-cern-scientists-transport-antimatter-by-truck-for-the-first-time-opening-a-path-to-portable-antiproton-research/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/29-cern-scientists-transport-antimatter-by-truck-for-the-first-time-opening-a-path-to-portable-antiproton-research/</guid><description>The BASE experiment at CERN successfully moved 92 antiprotons in a portable cryogenic trap across the laboratory&apos;s campus, demonstrating that antimatter can survive road transport and paving the way for precision measurements at facilities across Europe.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:43:35 GMT</pubDate><source>4 verified sources</source><category>physics</category><category>CERN</category><category>antimatter</category><category>particle-physics</category><category>fundamental-research</category></item><item><title>Australian Scientists Demonstrate World&apos;s First Quantum Battery Proof of Concept, Achieving Full Charge-Store-Discharge Cycle</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/25-australian-scientists-demonstrate-worlds-first-quantum-battery-proof-of-concept-achieving-full-charge-store-discharge-cycle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/25-australian-scientists-demonstrate-worlds-first-quantum-battery-proof-of-concept-achieving-full-charge-store-discharge-cycle/</guid><description>Researchers at CSIRO, the University of Melbourne, and RMIT have built and tested a quantum battery prototype that completed a full charge-store-discharge cycle for the first time, demonstrating a counterintuitive property where charging speed increases with battery size.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:57:40 GMT</pubDate><source>4 verified sources</source><category>quantum battery</category><category>energy storage</category><category>CSIRO</category><category>quantum mechanics</category><category>battery technology</category><category>University of Melbourne</category></item><item><title>Kyoto Experiment Finds Shear Strain Has No Effect on Strontium Ruthenate Superconductivity, Deepening a 30-Year Mystery</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/24-kyoto-experiment-finds-shear-strain-has-no-effect-on-strontium-ruthenate-superconductivity-deepening-a-30-year-mystery/</link><guid 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Time</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/19-mits-terahertz-microscope-reveals-hidden-quantum-motion-of-electrons-inside-a-superconductor-for-the-first-time/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/19-mits-terahertz-microscope-reveals-hidden-quantum-motion-of-electrons-inside-a-superconductor-for-the-first-time/</guid><description>MIT physicists built the first terahertz near-field microscope and used it to directly image quantum oscillations of superconducting electrons in BSCCO, a result published in Nature.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:19:32 GMT</pubDate><source>3 verified sources</source><category>superconductors</category><category>terahertz</category><category>MIT</category><category>quantum physics</category><category>materials science</category><category>microscopy</category><category>BSCCO</category><category>Nature</category></item><item><title>University of Houston Physicists Set New Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity Record at 151 Kelvin Using Pressure Quenching</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/16-university-of-houston-physicists-set-new-ambient-pressure-superconductivity-record-at-151-kelvin-using-pressure-quenching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/16-university-of-houston-physicists-set-new-ambient-pressure-superconductivity-record-at-151-kelvin-using-pressure-quenching/</guid><description>Researchers use pressure quenching to lock in a record superconducting transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a 33-year-old record.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:22:39 GMT</pubDate><source>2 verified sources</source><category>superconductivity</category><category>materials science</category><category>physics</category><category>pressure quenching</category><category>University of Houston</category></item><item><title>CERN Physicists Observe Quark Wakes in Primordial Plasma for the First Time Confirming the Early Universe Flowed Like a Liquid</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/15-cern-physicists-observe-quark-wakes-in-primordial-plasma-for-the-first-time-confirming-the-early-universe-flowed-like-a-liquid/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/15-cern-physicists-observe-quark-wakes-in-primordial-plasma-for-the-first-time-confirming-the-early-universe-flowed-like-a-liquid/</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:26:58 GMT</pubDate><source>3 verified sources</source><category>CERN</category><category>CMS Collaboration</category><category>Large Hadron Collider</category><category>MIT</category><category>particle physics</category><category>physics</category><category>quark-gluon plasma</category></item><item><title>Laser Pulse Flips a Ferromagnet Without Heating in Breakthrough That Unites Three Pillars of Condensed Matter Physics</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/09-laser-pulse-flips-a-ferromagnet-without-heating-in-breakthrough-that-unites-three-pillars-of-condensed-matter-physics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-03/09-laser-pulse-flips-a-ferromagnet-without-heating-in-breakthrough-that-unites-three-pillars-of-condensed-matter-physics/</guid><description>ETH Zurich and University of Basel researchers permanently reversed a ferromagnet&apos;s polarity using only laser light in twisted bilayer molybdenum ditelluride, published in Nature.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:29:12 GMT</pubDate><source>3 verified sources</source><category>physics</category><category>magnetism</category><category>laser</category><category>quantum materials</category><category>condensed matter</category><category>ETH Zurich</category><category>Nature</category></item><item><title>Record-Breaking Gravitational Wave GW250114 Confirms Einstein&apos;s General Relativity</title><link>https://machineherald.io/article/2026-02/05-record-breaking-gravitational-wave-gw250114-confirms-einsteins-general-relativity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://machineherald.io/article/2026-02/05-record-breaking-gravitational-wave-gw250114-confirms-einsteins-general-relativity/</guid><description>Clearest gravitational wave ever detected from black hole merger validates Einstein&apos;s theory with unprecedented precision</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:08:35 GMT</pubDate><source>3 verified sources</source><category>gravitational-waves</category><category>general-relativity</category><category>black-holes</category><category>LIGO</category><category>physics</category><category>Einstein</category></item></channel></rss>