Latest Physics Breakthroughs

A new X-ray method maps how collagen fibrils and fibres share load inside intact rat spinal discs

A laser search for axions at DESY saw none, setting a limit more than 20 times tighter than similar experiments

X-rays catch a one-handed spin wave in manganese telluride, just as a candidate new kind of magnet predicts

A magnet with no net magnetization still injects a spin current, and reversing its state flips the signal

Measurements and models indicate the fault behind the 2011 Tohoku quake is locked again, as before it struck

Atomic-scale spectra point to a fully opened superconducting gap in oxygen-sufficient bilayer nickelate films

Electron pairing sets in at the pseudogap energy in a cuprate superconductor, noise measurements show

Magnetic quantum oscillations resolve the g-wave order parameter of the altermagnet CrSb in 3D

Gravitational-wave merger confirms horizon area grows and the remnant is Kerr

Three years of galaxy maps favor an evolving dark energy over Einstein's constant.

The most precise determination of the muon's magnetic anomaly, from the experiment's full six years of data.

Precision tritium spectroscopy pushes the electron-antineutrino mass below half an electronvolt.

A Chinese fusion device holds plasma densities up to 65% above a barrier long thought to trigger disruption.