Feynman Explains EVERYTHING In This Universe Is Made of Quantum Fields

 Feynman Explains EVERYTHING In This Universe Is Made of Quantum Fields

Feynman Explains Why Entropy Controls Life, Time, Information, and the Universe

 Feynman Explains Why Entropy Controls Life, Time, Information, and the Universe

The Shocking Truth About Dimensions — Feynman Makes It Click

 

The Shocking Truth About Dimensions — Feynman Makes It Click

Why Does Antimatter EXIST AT ALL? Feynman’s Answer Will SHATTER Your Reality

 

Why Does Antimatter EXIST AT ALL? Feynman’s Answer Will SHATTER Your Reality

Feynman Explains The ‘God Particle’ Like NO ONE Else Can

 

Feynman Explains The ‘God Particle’ Like NO ONE Else Can

Why Can't You Walk Through WALLS? — Feynman's Answer Will COLLAPSE Your Understanding

 

Why Can't You Walk Through WALLS? — Feynman's Answer Will COLLAPSE Your Understanding

Why Does Space Expand? My Answer Will DESTROY Your Reality

 

Why Does Space Expand? My Answer Will DESTROY Your Reality

Feynman Explains Why Nothing Ever Truly Comes to Rest

 

Feynman Explains Why Nothing Ever Truly Comes to Rest

Can the Universe Be Explained in 3 Hours? Feynman’s Ultimate Deep Dive || Learn With Feynman

 Can the Universe Be Explained in 3 Hours? Feynman’s Ultimate Deep Dive || Learn With Feynman

Black Holes Explained Clearly with Richard Feynman

 Black Holes Explained Clearly with Richard Feynman

Why Does Water FREEZE? Feynman's Answer Will DESTROY Your Reality

 Why Does Water FREEZE? Feynman's Answer Will DESTROY Your Reality

Feynman Explains Why the Past Still Exists Right Now?

 

Feynman Explains Why the Past Still Exists Right Now?

Feynman Explains Why and How Magnets Work?

 Feynman Explains Why and How Magnets Work?

Understanding Gravity with Richard Feynman

 Understanding Gravity with Richard Feynman

24 Minutes of Richard Feynman Explaining Force | The Hidden Rules Behind Motion

 24 Minutes of Richard Feynman Explaining Force | The Hidden Rules Behind Motion

Feynman Explains Why light does not move

Feynman Explains Why light does not move

 

 

Saving the Titanic: the science of icebergs and unsinkable ships

30 Jan 2026 Margaret Harris

Out of the depths: Multiple unsinkable metal tubes linked together in a raft formation could be the basis for the ships, buoys, and floating platforms of the future. (Courtesy: University of Rochester photo / J Adam Fenster)

When the Titanic was built, her owners famously described her as “unsinkable”. A few days into her maiden voyage, an iceberg in the North Atlantic famously proved them wrong. But what if we could make ships that really are unsinkable? And what if we could predict exactly how long a hazardous iceberg will last before it melts?

These are the premises of two separate papers published independently this week by Chunlei Guo and colleagues at the University of Rochester, and by Daisuke Noto and Hugo N Ulloa of the University of Pennsylvania, both in the US. The Rochester group’s paper, which appears in Advanced Functional Materials, describes how applying a superhydrophobic coating to an open-ended metallic tube can make it literally unsinkable – a claim supported by extensive tests in a water tank. Noto and Ulloa’s research, which they describe in Science Advances, likewise involved a water tank.

 

Extra carbon in the atmosphere may disrupt radio communications

02 Dec 2025 Isabelle Dumé

Radio waves in the ionosphere. Photo of the Earth with radio waves, depicted in purple, flowing across it. HF and VHF waves travel through the ionosphere, but a phenomenon called sporadic-E can interfere with these frequencies. (Courtesy: Huixin Liu/Kyushu University)

Higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere could harm radio communications by enhancing a disruptive effect in the ionosphere. According to researchers at Kyushu University, Japan, who modelled the effect numerically for the first time, this little-known consequence of climate change could have significant impacts on shortwave radio systems such as those employed in broadcasting, air traffic control, and navigation.

“While increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere warm the Earth’s surface, they actually cool the ionosphere,” explains study leader Huixin Liu of Kyushu’s Faculty of Science. “This cooling doesn’t mean it is all good: it decreases the air density in the ionosphere and accelerates wind circulation. These changes affect the orbits and lifespan of satellites and space debris and also disrupt radio communications through localized small-scale plasma irregularities.”

On Calderon-Zygmund type estimates for nonlocal PDE, Armin Schikorra

On Calderon-Zygmund type estimates for nonlocal PDE, Armin Schikorra

 

New sensor uses topological material to detect helium leaks

26 Jan 2026 Isabelle Dumé

Cylinders and tubes: The structure of the helium detection device was inspired by the Japanese bamboo-weaving technique known as Kagome-biki. This triangular structure (shown in detail on the left) helps users determine the locations of helium leaks in 2D space. (Courtesy: Wang et al.)

A new sensor detects helium leaks by monitoring how sound waves propagate through a topological material – no chemical reactions required. Developed by acoustic scientists at Nanjing University, China, the innovative, physics-based device is compact, stable, accurate, and capable of operating at very low temperatures.

Helium is employed in a wide range of fields, including aerospace, semiconductor manufacturing, medical applications, and physics research. Because it is odourless, colourless, and inert, it is essentially invisible to traditional leak-detection equipment such as adsorption-based sensors. Specialist helium detectors are available, but they are bulky, expensive, and highly sensitive to operating conditions.

 

Schrödinger cat state sets new size record

05 Feb 2026 Isabelle Dumé

Massively quantum: The University of Vienna’s Multi-Scale Cluster Interference Experiment (MUSCLE), where researchers detected quantum interference in massive nanoparticles. (Courtesy: S Pedalino / Uni Wien)

Classical mechanics describes our everyday world of macroscopic objects very well. Quantum mechanics is similarly good at describing physics on the atomic scale. The boundary between these two regimes, however, is still poorly understood. Where, exactly, does the quantum world stop and the classical world begin?

Researchers in Austria and Germany have now pushed the line further towards the macroscopic regime by showing that metal nanoparticles made up of thousands of atoms clustered together continue to obey the rules of quantum mechanics in a double-slit-type experiment. At over 170 000 atomic mass units, these nanoparticles are heavier than some viroids and proteins – a fact that study leader Sebastian Pedalino, a PhD student at the University of Vienna, says demonstrates that quantum mechanics remains valid at this scale and alternative models are not required.

 

Is our embrace of AI naïve, and could it lead to an environmental disaster?

26 Jan 2026

Johan Hansson says it is dangerous to treat artificial intelligence as a magic wand and thinks researchers should create their own AI tools that they can control better

Jumping on the bandwagon Despite the potential benefits of artificial intelligence are we being too quick to embrace the technology? (Courtesy: Shutterstock/khunkorn Studio)

According to today’s leading experts in artificial intelligence (AI), this new technology is a danger to civilization. A statement on AI risk published in 2023 by the US non-profit Center for AI Safety warned that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI must now be “a global priority”, comparing it to other societal-scale dangers such as pandemics and nuclear war. It was signed by more than 600 people, including the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics and the so-called “Godfather of AI,

 

Shining a laser light on a material produces subtle changes in its magnetic properties

21 Jan 2026 Isabelle Dumé

Creating novel magnetic structures: (left to right) Team members Lauren Riddiford, Aleš Hrabec, and Jeffrey Brock in the cleanroom at Park Innovaare, near PSI. (Courtesy: Paul Scherrer Institute PSI / Mahir Dzambegovic)

Researchers in Switzerland have identified an unexpected new application of an optical technique commonly employed in silicon chip manufacturing. By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed that it was possible to change the material’s magnetic properties on a scale of nanometres – essentially “writing” these magnetic properties into the sample in the same way as photolithography etches patterns onto wafers. The discovery could have applications in novel forms of computer memory and in fundamental research.

In standard photolithography – the workhorse of the modern chip manufacturing industry – a light beam passes through a transmission mask and projects an image of the mask’s light-absorption pattern onto a (usually silicon) wafer. The wafer is covered with a photosensitive polymer, known as a resist. Changing the light intensity alters the exposure level in the resist-coated material, enabling the fabrication of finely detailed structures.

Topological Obstructions for Sobolev Spaces (Lecture 4) by Armin Schikorra

Topological Obstructions for Sobolev Spaces (Lecture 4)  by Armin Schikorra

 

Cavity-based X-ray laser delivers high-quality pulses

31 Jan 2026 Hamish Johnston

How XFELO works. Electron pulses (blue beam) enter the undulator (row of silver bars) at the top left. X-ray pulses (red beam) are created in the undulator and then reflected back and forth by mirrors. (Courtesy: European XFEL)

Physicists in Germany have developed a new type of X-ray laser that uses a resonant cavity to enhance the output of a conventional X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL). Their proof-of-concept design delivers X-ray pulses that are more monochromatic and coherent than those from existing XFELs.

In recent decades, XFELs have delivered monochromatic, coherent X-ray pulses for a wide range of scientific applications, including physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science.

Despite their name, XFELs do not work like conventional lasers. In particular, there is no gain medium or resonator cavity. Instead, XFELs rely on the fact that when a free electron is accelerated, it will emit electromagnetic radiation. In an XFEL, pulses of high-energy electrons are sent through an undulator, which deflects the electrons back and forth. These wiggling electrons radiate X-rays at a specific energy. As the X-rays and electrons travel along the undulator, they interact in such a way that the emitted X-ray pulse has a high degree of coherence.

 

Using AI boosts scientific productivity and career prospects, finds study

04 Feb 2026

Lab bot: AI chatbots are increasingly being used as collaborators in day-to-day research, from experiment planning and literature synthesis to mathematical reasoning and data analysis. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Anggalih Prasetya)

Using artificial intelligence (AI) increases scientists’ productivity and impact but collectively leads to a shrinking of research focus. That is according to an analysis of more than 41 million research papers by scientists in China and the US, which finds that scientists who produce AI-augmented research also progress faster in their careers than their colleagues who do not (Nature 649 1237).

The study was conducted by James Evans, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, and his colleagues, who analysed 41.3 million papers listed in the OpenAlex dataset, published between 1980 and 2025. They examined papers in physics and five other disciplines: biology, chemistry, geology, materials science, and medicine.

 

The Future Circular Collider is unduly risky – CERN needs a ‘Plan B.’

29 Jan 2026

The fragmenting world order makes plans to build the Future Circular Collider questionable, warns Michael Riordan

Cost measures CERN is proposing the Future Circular Collider to study the Higgs boson in great detail, but can it afford the $18bn price tag? (Courtesy: CERN/Polar Media)

Last November, I visited the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva to attend the 4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics, which focused on advances in particle physics during the 1980s and 1990s. As usual, it was a refreshing, intellectually invigorating visit. I’m always inspired by the great diversity of scientists at CERN – complemented this time by historians, philosophers, and other scholars of science.

As noted by historian John Krige in his opening keynote address, “CERN is a European laboratory with a global footprint. Yet for all its success, it now faces a turning point.” During the period under examination at the symposium, CERN essentially achieved the “world laboratory” status that various leaders of particle physics had dreamt of for decades.

 

Twenty-three nominations, yet no Nobel prize: how Chien-Shiung Wu missed out on the top award in physics

03 Feb 2026

Many have wondered why the Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu never won a share of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics for her experimental verification of parity violation. Mats Larsson and Ramon Wyss reveal the true story after becoming the first people to open that year’s Nobel archives

Experienced experimentalist Chien-Shiung Wu in 1958, the year after she first missed out on the Nobel Prize for Physics. (Courtesy: Smithsonian Institution Archives)

The facts seem simple enough. In 1957, Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee won the Nobel Prize for Physics “for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws, which have led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles”. The idea that parity is violated shocked physicists, who had previously assumed that every process in nature remains the same if you reverse all three spatial coordinates.

 

String-theory concept boosts understanding of biological networks

27 Jan 2026

Branching out The new model addresses higher order junctions like those shown in this artist’s impression of a biological neural network. (Courtesy: iStock/Ktsimage)

Many biological networks – including blood vessels and plant roots – are not organized to minimize total length, as long assumed. Instead, their geometry is governed by a principle of surface minimization, a rule also prevalent in string theory. That is the conclusion of physicists in the US, who have created a unifying framework that explains structural features long seen in real networks but poorly captured by traditional mathematical models.

Biological transport and communication networks have fascinated scientists for decades. Neurons branch to form synapses, blood vessels split to supply tissues, and plant roots spread through soil.

 

Bidirectional scattering microscope detects micro- and nanoscale structures simultaneously

09 Jan 2026 Isabelle Dumé

Two techniques in one Conceptual illustration of the bidirectional quantitative scattering microscope, which detects both forward and backward scattered light from cells. This dual detection enables visualization of structures ranging from whole-cell morphology to nanoscale particles. (Courtesy: Horie et al 2025)

A new microscope that can simultaneously measure forward- and backward-scattered light from a sample could enable researchers to image micro- and nanoscale objects simultaneously. The device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move, say the researchers at the University of Tokyo who developed it.

“Our technique could help us link cell structures with the motion of tiny particles inside and outside cells,” explains Kohki Horie of the University of Tokyo’s department of physics, who led this research effort. “Because it is label-free, it is gentler on cells and better for long observations. In the future, it could help quantify cell states, holding potential for drug testing and quality checks in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.”

 

Light pollution from satellite mega-constellations threatens space-based observations

04 Dec 2025 Michael Banks

Obstructed view: The study finds that 96% of images from planned telescopes could be compromised by satellite constellations. (Courtesy: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/DECam DELVE Survey)

Almost every image that will be taken by future space observatories in low-Earth orbit could be tainted due to light contamination from satellites. That is according to a new analysis by NASA researchers, who emphasize that satellite-induced light pollution must be reduced to ensure that astronomical research is not affected.

The number of satellites orbiting Earth has increased from about 2000 in 2019 to 15 000 today. Many of these are part of so-called mega-constellations that provide global Internet coverage, including in areas previously unable to access it. Examples of such constellations include SpaceX’s Starlink, as well as Amazon’s Kuiper and Eutelsat’s OneWeb.

 

New cosmic map will put dark-matter theories to the test

03 Feb 2026

Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible galaxies are built. The overlaid contours mark regions of equal dark-matter density, highlighting where this invisible matter (shown in blue false colour) is most strongly concentrated. (Courtesy: Gavin Leroy/COSMOS-Webb collaboration)

Astronomers have created the most detailed map to date of the vast structures of dark matter that appear to permeate the universe. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team, led by Diana Scognamiglio at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, used gravitational lensing to map the dark matter filaments and clusters with unprecedented resolution. As a result, physicists have new and robust data to test theories of dark matter.

Dark matter is a hypothetical substance that appears to account for about 85% of the mass in the universe – yet it has never been observed directly. Dark matter is invoked by physicists to explain the dynamics and evolution of large-scale structures in the universe.

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CERN team solves decades-old mystery of light nuclei formation

13 Jan 2026

Light nuclei: Illustration of how deuterons can be produced from a high-energy collision. A delta particle emerging from the collision decays into a proton and a pion. The proton then undergoes nuclear fusion with a neutron to form a deuteron. (Courtesy: CERN)

When particle colliders smash particles together, the resulting debris cloud sometimes contains a puzzling ingredient: light atomic nuclei. Such nuclei have relatively low binding energies, and they would normally break down at temperatures far below those found in high-energy collisions. Somehow, though, their signature remains. This mystery has stumped physicists for decades, but researchers in the ALICE collaboration at CERN have now solved it. Their experiments showed that light nuclei form via a process called resonance-decay formation – a result that could pave the way towards searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.