Recent Articles
Podcast: A Milestone in Laser-Plasma Acceleration
Researchers from the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Center talk about their latest results on a laser-based particle-acceleration technique that could lead to cheaper and more compact x-ray sources and particle accelerators. Read More »
Taking the Temperature of Earth’s Core
By measuring the melting temperature of iron under high transient pressure, researchers set a limit on the temperature at the boundary between the inner and outer cores. Read More »
Electrons Channel Surf to Ultrahigh Energies
A laser-driven electron accelerator delivers beams of 10-GeV electrons—an approach that could lead to cheaper, more compact alternatives to large-scale x-ray sources and particle accelerators. Read More »
The Puzzle of Radiation-Resistant Alloys
Atomic simulations deepen the mystery of how engineered materials known as refractory high-entropy alloys can suffer so little damage by radiation. Read More »
Seeking Supernovae in Seafloor Sediments
Minerals exposed during an ancient Mediterranean Sea desiccation should reveal damage caused by muons, providing evidence of enhanced cosmic-ray fluxes. Read More »
Eating Without Limit: Ravenous Object May Explain Early Black Hole Growth
A black hole accreting mass above the so-called Eddington limit may explain how supermassive black holes reach billions of times the mass of our Sun. Read More »
Highlights of the Year
Physics Magazine Editors pick their favorite stories from 2024. Read More »
Ultracold Fermions Enter the Fractional Quantum Hall Arena
By controlling the motion and interaction of individual atoms in a cold-atom ensemble, researchers have produced a correlated topological state of matter, called a fractional quantum Hall state. Read More »
Gravitational Versions of Quantum Experiments
Measuring gravitational analogues of quantum phenomena could lead to high-precision measurement of gravitational forces, according to a theoretical proposal. Read More »
