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National Eucharistic Pilgrimage inspires wave of priestly and religious vocations
The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage is bearing vocational fruit, with 26 of 45 former perpetual pilgrims discerning or pursuing priesthood, religious life, or other consecrated vocations.
Light from the Sun takes about eight minutes to reach Earth, but the energy inside a single photon can spend tens of thousands of years bouncing through the Sun’s dense core before it ever escapes the surface to begin that eight-minute trip
Sunlight takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth from the solar surface. But the energy inside each photon spent tens of thousands of years pinballing through the Sun's core before it ever got out — a random walk through matter thirteen times denser than lead.
Nuclear Fusion Market Anticipated to Surpass USD 33.77 Billion by 2031, Driven by Clean Energy Transition
The nuclear fusion market is set to grow from USD 18 billion in 2026 to over USD 33.77 billion by 2031, with a CAGR of 13.4%, driven by the global shift to clean energy. Fusion energy offers continuous power with minimal environmental impact, unlike intermitt…
Every Frame of a Black Hole Movie Is a Time Machine – And Physicists Think We're Oversimplifying
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Physicists say quantum mechanics may not need imaginary numbers after all
Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have examined a fundamental property of quantum mechanics in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). In the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, they show that this theory does not necessarily need to be formulated with imaginary numbers – real numbers can in fact also be used. The American Physical Society has also dedicated a “Highlight” to these findings in its Physics Magazine.
Watching Dawn and Dusk on a Distant Hot Jupiter
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have caught an extreme, tidally locked exoplanet in the act of showing two very different faces at once, a fierce, wind battered hemisphere and a comparatively gentler half. The discovery not only reveals a planet with a genuine weather system violent enough to tear water apart, it hints at a missing ingredient in how scientists model alien atmospheres altogether.
Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, is sealed beneath a shell of ice, but the ocean hidden below may contain twice as much liquid water as every ocean on Earth combined — and Jupiter’s gravity may have kept it liquid for billions of years
Europa looks, at first, like a frozen world that should be finished. It orbits far from the Sun, locked in the cold outer Solar System, its surface crossed by long reddish fractures and pale plains of ice. There are no blue seas visible from space, no clouds,…
A single teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about four billion tonnes on Earth — roughly the mass of a mountain — because the star has crushed the equivalent of the Sun into a sphere the width of a city
Neutron stars crush more mass than the Sun into a sphere the width of Manhattan, producing matter so dense a single teaspoon would weigh about four billion tonnes on Earth — the mass of a small mountain range in the volume of a sugar cube. The post A single t…
Zapata Quantum Bets Software, AI Partnerships Will Unlock Quantum Computing Value
Key Points - Zapata Quantum says the quantum industry is shifting from hardware to software and applications, and that its hardware-agnostic approach lets enterprises pursue use cases without betting on a single quantum platform. - The company highlighted it…
Zeekr Malaysia signs three new authorised dealer partners – 11 outlets now, 18 planned by end of 2026
Zeekr Malaysia has signed on three new authorised dealer partners as it continues to expand its network in the country. The three include Wheelcorp Premium and Quantum Motors, both of which will have Zeekr outlets […] The post Zeekr Malaysia signs three new a…
Light Can Act as a Quantum Brake to Slow Movement in The Nanoworld, Scientists Discover
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Physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in the lab - ScienceDaily
Physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in the labScienceDaily CUNY ASRC Recreates Extreme Black Hole Physics in the Lab Black hole theory: Synthetic ultrafast rotation amplifies electromagnetic wavesOpen Access Government Physicists Replicate Black Hole Energy Extraction Using Synthet...
Error correction of a logical qubit encoded in a single atomic ion
Quantum error correction typically encodes one logical qubit across many physical qubits to suppress noise. An experiment now encodes and corrects a qubit within the multiple internal states of a single trapped ion, reducing errors and extending the coherence time.
Fermionic parton theory of Rydberg $${{\mathbb{Z}}}_{2}$$ Z 2 quantum spin liquids
Rydberg atoms arrayed on the ruby lattice have recently been used to realize a $${{\mathbb{Z}}}_{2}$$Z2 quantum spin liquid, yet pinning down the microscopic nature of this state remains an open question. Here, the authors classify all symmetry allowed $${{\mathbb{Z}}}_{2}$$Z2 quantum spin liquids using projective symmetry group theory, identify a candidate state through comparison with numerical calculations, and predict experimental signatures in the form of dynamical structure factors.
Electrons do more than just flow
Recent advances in quantum materials have shifted the focus from charge transport to a broader range of electronic degrees of freedom. In this Focus issue, we highlight different facets of electronic degrees of freedom and their potential applications.
A thin route to order
Nature Physics - A thin route to order
Magnetic field maybe
Nature Physics - Magnetic field maybe
Stuck under water
Nature Physics - Stuck under water
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a striking image of Centaurus A
NASA has recently unveiled an image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showing the merger of two galaxies. Thanks to this instrument, astronomers are able to better understand these structures, although some mysteries remain.
Quantum Computers Identify Nuclear Fusion Fuel Chemistry in Major First
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Quantum Computing Threat Prompts Crypto Firms to Prepare Post-Quantum Defenses
Cryptocurrency firms are developing plans to upgrade networks with quantum-resistant cryptography following advances suggesting quantum computers could break existing encryption sooner than expected. Google’s research indicates quantum computers capable of breaking encryption could arrive by 2029, reports Reuters. Today’s computers lack the power to work backward from a public key to uncover the private key […]
‘Check your ingredients’: A new blueprint for using Fermi’s ‘Golden Rule’
Fermi’s “Golden Rule” is a formula that connects theoretical quantum mechanics and what scientists observe in experiments, yet it is often misapplied. A new study by Yale physicists put this foundational formula through its paces.
Burnham says US will remain 'most important ally' amid fears over tensions with Trump... as he backs defence boost to revive UK industry
Andy Burnham said the so-called Special Relationship will remain 'critical' amid concerns about how he will deal with Donald Trump.
New Report: 'Generative AI in Material Science Market Report 2026' Profiles Microsoft, NVIDIA, IBM, Siemens, and 29 Other Key Players
Key opportunities in the generative AI in material science market include accelerated AI-led material discovery, integration with digital twins, and growth in cloud-based simulations. Rising AI investments and demand for sustainable materials further drive in…
Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US
I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump administration set a goal to see three new microreactors achi…
Defiance Launches Europe's First Photonics UCITS ETF (PHOT)
Defiance Launches Europe's First Photonics UCITS ETF (PHOT)...
Katie Couric reveals amnesia caused ‘black hole’ in her memory
‘Several hours of a Saturday in June will always be missing for me,’ the journalist wrote
Physics says time travel into the future is not a thought experiment — every astronaut who has orbited Earth has returned a fraction of a second younger than they would have been if they had stayed on the ground
Time travel into the future sounds like a fiction problem until it is written in the language of clocks. Every astronaut who has spent time in low Earth orbit has moved through time at a slightly different rate from people on the ground. The effect is tiny, f…
Black hole collisions may follow entropy law, offering simpler remnant predictions - Phys.org
Black hole collisions may follow entropy law, offering simpler remnant predictionsPhys.org Black hole mergers: Penn State physicists use simple thermodynamics to predict cosmic collisionsOpen Access Government Dynamic black holes explained by simple thermodynamics?EurekAlert! ...
In November 2025, UC Irvine astronomers announced a rocky super-Earth called GJ 251 c orbiting in a habitable zone less than 20 light-years away — close enough that the next generation of ground-based telescopes may actually photograph it directly
GJ 251 c is the kind of planet astronomers have been trying to find for decades: nearby, relatively small, in a temperate orbit, and separated from its star just enough that future telescopes may not have to infer its existence only from a wobble. The planet,…
Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity. The Nobel Committee avoided honouring that still-controversial theory directly, and instead awarded him for his work on the photoelectric effect — the discovery that helped launch quantum physics.
Albert Einstein is so closely identified with relativity that it can feel natural to assume the Nobel Prize followed that theory. It did not. The official Nobel record lists Einstein as the sole laureate of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but the prize motiv…
Heidelberg physicists just united two opposing quantum theories
A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape experiments on ultracold atoms, semiconductors, and other exotic forms of quantum matter.
Principles of optics in Fock space for the scalable manipulation of large quantum states
Bosonic quantum states can be understood as superpositions of eigenstates with fixed numbers of bosons. Now experiments show that mapping this representation to classical wave propagation offers an intuitive way to manipulate large quantum states.
Hybrid nanophotonic trap for cold atoms using surface forces and a blue-detuned evanescent field
A hybrid nanophotonic trap for cold caesium atoms uses surface forces for attraction and blue-detuned light for repulsion to achieve efficient loading and enhanced storage and coherence times.
Propagation effects in high harmonic generation media driven by bright squeezed vacuum light
Recent developments in strong-field quantum optics are usually modelled with approaches neglecting the propagation dynamics inside the medium. Here, the authors introduce a fully quantized framework for bright squeezed vacuum states propagating inside atomic media undergoing high-harmonic generation, unveiling the role of decoherence effects.
Author Correction: Electrostatic potentials of atomic nanostructures at metal surfaces quantified by scanning quantum dot microscopy
Nature Communications - Author Correction: Electrostatic potentials of atomic nanostructures at metal surfaces quantified by scanning quantum dot microscopy
7,000 Galaxy Clusters, Hiding in Plain Sight
A five year survey by the South Pole Telescope has produced a catalogue of more than seven thousand galaxy clusters, some dating back nearly eight billion years, giving astronomers their most detailed map yet of the universe's largest structures. Hidden insid…
In nearly seventy years of deep-sea exploration, researchers compiled 43,681 submersible dive records — and found that humans have visually observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, according to a Science Advances study published in May 2025.
In almost seven decades of deep-sea exploration, the direct human view of the deep ocean floor is still smaller than many people would guess. A Science Advances study published in May 2025 compiled 43,681 submersible dive records dating back to 1958 and estim…
AI money watch: five funding rounds that matter today
A busy 24 hours for AI and deep-tech money, from a $300m quantum bet to Paris voice AI and Europe’s energy startups. Here are the rounds worth knowing. The cash keeps flowing into AI and deep tech. The past day alone brought a $300m quantum raise, a fresh bil…
The Milky Way's Arms Reach Out Further Than we Thought
A new result using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that the outer spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy may reach wider than previously thought. This finding may lead astronomers to adjust their understanding of our home galaxy’s structure.
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