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Lab study suggests longer waves fracture floating ice sheets at lower stress When waves are moving across ice-covered seas, they can cause sheets of ice to bend and ultimately break. Understanding the processes underlying these wave-induced ice fractures and predicting when they will occur could help to better forecast how climate change will impact the environment and marine ecosystems on Earth. Researchers at PMMH Lab, ESPCI, CNRS, PSL University, Sorbonne Université and Université Paris Cité recently performed a new laboratory experiment aimed at shedding new light on this phenomenon. The results of this experiment, published in Physical Review Letters, suggest that the stress at which ice sheets break depends on the length of the underlying waves. Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website: globalenergyawards.org Contact Us: support@globalenergyawards.org

  Novel quantum refrigerator benefits from problematic noise For quantum computers to function, they must be kept at extremely low temperatures. However, today's cooling systems also generate noise that interferes with the fragile quantum information they are meant to protect. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an entirely new type of quantum refrigerator, which is partly driven by the noise itself. This refrigerator enables very precise control over heat and energy flows and could play an important role in scaling up quantum technology. Quantum technology is expected to transform multiple fundamental technologies in society, with applications ranging from drug development and artificial intelligence to logistics and secure communication. Yet, before quantum technology can be put to practical use, various major technical challenges remain. One of the most critical is protecting and controlling the delicate quantum states upon which this t...

 Subaru Telescope reveals a hidden giant planet Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi, the OASIS survey tracked subtle stellar wobbles to pinpoint where unseen worlds were lurking—then captured them directly. Astronomers have spotted a massive exoplanet and a rare brown dwarf by tracking tiny stellar motions and then imaging the hidden companions directly. One of the finds gives NASA’s Roman Space Telescope its first perfect target for testing planet-hunting technology meant to reveal Earth-like worlds. Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website: globalenergyawards.org Contact Us: support@globalenergyawards.org

 A hidden magnetic order could unlock superconductivity Physicists have discovered that hidden magnetic order plays a key role in the pseudogap, a puzzling state of matter that appears just before certain materials become superconductors. Using an ultra-cold quantum simulator, the team found that even when magnetism seems disrupted, subtle and universal magnetic patterns persist beneath the surface. These patterns closely track the temperature at which the pseudogap forms, suggesting magnetism may help set the stage for superconductivity. Scientists have uncovered hidden magnetic patterns inside the pseudogap, a strange quantum state that appears just before superconductivity begins. Credit: Shutterstock The discovery came from experiments using a quantum simulator cooled to temperatures just above absolute zero. As the system cooled, the researchers observed a consistent pattern in how electrons influence the magnetic orientation of nearby electrons. Since electrons can have spin ...

 Mathematicians unified key laws of physics in 2025 In 1900, mathematician David Hilbert presented his colleagues with a list of problems he believed both captured the present state of mathematics and the shape of its future. This year, 125 years later, Zaher Hani at the University of Michigan and his colleagues solved one of Hilbert’s problems – and unified several laws of physics in the process. Hilbert was a proponent of deriving all laws of physics from mathematical axioms – statements that mathematicians take to be basic truths. The sixth problem on his list was to derive laws of physics that dictate the behaviour of fluids from such axioms. Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website: globalenergyawards.org Contact Us: support@globalenergyawards.org

 This Quantum Breakthrough Could Change How Materials Are Made Scientists have shown that it may be possible to transform materials simply by triggering internal quantum ripples rather than blasting them with intense light. That idea may sound like something out of science fiction, but it is exactly what physicists aim to achieve through a growing research area known as Floquet engineering. By exposing a material to a repeating external influence such as light, scientists can temporarily reshape how its electrons behave. This process allows materials to take on entirely new properties, including behaviors normally associated with exotic states of matter, like superconductivity. The underlying theory behind Floquet physics has been studied for years, dating back to a bold proposal by Oka and Aoki in 2009. However, real-world demonstrations have been rare. Only a small number of experiments over the past decade have successfully shown clear Floquet effects. A major obstacle has been ...

 Inside the mysterious collapse of dark matter halos Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with normal matter. This self-interacting dark matter may trigger a dramatic collapse inside dark matter halos, heating and densifying their cores in surprising ways. Until now, this crucial middle ground of behavior was nearly impossible to model accurately. The new code makes these simulations faster, more precise, and accessible enough to run on a laptop. A new simulation reveals how colliding dark matter particles could trigger cosmic collapses that shape galaxies—and possibly seed black holes. Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com For nearly 100 years, dark matter has remained one of the biggest unanswered questions in cosmology. Although it cannot be seen directly, its gravitational influence shapes galaxies and the large-scale structure of the universe. At the Perimeter Institute, two physicists are investigating how ...

 This Quantum Material Breaks the Rules – and Reveals New Physics Quantum physics shows that particles do not behave like solid objects with fixed positions. Instead, they also act like waves, which means their exact location in space cannot be pinned down. Even so, in many practical situations, scientists can still rely on a familiar, classical description. They often picture particles as tiny objects moving through space at a certain speed. This simplified view is especially useful when explaining how electricity moves through metals. Physicists typically describe electric current as electrons rushing through a material, where they are pushed, slowed, or redirected by electromagnetic forces. Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website: globalenergyawards.org Contact Us: support@globalenergyawards.org

 Our elegant universe: rethinking nature’s deepest principle In the Altes Museum in Berlin stands a boy with his arms raised to the heavens. Aside from the right heel, which is slightly arched, this ancient Greek statue is almost perfectly symmetrical. Did the sculptor impose this balance for purely artistic reasons? Hermann Weyl thought not. We are drawn to symmetry, said the German mathematician, because it governs the very order of the universe. In the early 20th century, Weyl helped to uncover symmetry – and, by extension, beauty – as the bedrock of modern physics. Here, it means far more than visual balance. It means that nature behaves the same way in different places, at different times and under countless other changes. Symmetry explains why energy cannot be created or destroyed, and even why many things exist at all. No wonder Weyl thought it had a metaphysical status. Symmetry, he said, “is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, b...

Superconductivity Breakthrough: Hidden Order Found Inside Quantum Chaos Physicists have identified a connection between magnetism and an unusual state of matter known as the pseudogap. This phase appears in some quantum materials at temperatures just above where they become superconductors. The discovery may help scientists design new materials with valuable properties, including high-temperature superconductivity, where electrical current moves with no resistance. To uncover this link, researchers used a quantum simulator cooled to temperatures barely above absolute zero. They observed a consistent pattern in how electrons affect the magnetic orientation of nearby electrons as the system cools. Since electrons can have spin up or down, these interactions shape the material’s magnetic behavior. The work marks an important advance in understanding unconventional superconductivity and involved close collaboration between experimental physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Opti...

The Big Bang’s Biggest Mystery? Dark Matter May Have Been “Red Hot” at Birth A research team from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Université Paris-Saclay is questioning a theory about dark matter that has shaped cosmology for decades. Their new work suggests that this mysterious substance may have been “incredibly hot” – moving at nearly the speed of light – when it first formed in the early Universe. The findings were published in Physical Review Letters, the leading journal of the American Physical Society. The study offers fresh insight into how the Universe began and expands the range of possibilities for what dark matter is and how it behaves alongside ordinary matter. Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website: globalenergyawards.org Contact Us: support@globalenergyawards.org

Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we dive into fascinating ideas from around the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time here. Adolf Hitler died on April 30, 1945. At least, that’s what the official history says. But a handful of historians disputed the evidence and insisted that the Führer escaped war-torn Berlin and lived on somewhere in hiding. Although the latter account is widely dismissed today as a groundless conspiracy theory, no rational historian would doubt that, whatever the disputed evidence, there was at least a “fact of the matter”. Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website: globalenergyawards.org Contact Us: support@globalenergyawards.org

A new crystal makes magnetism twist in surprising ways Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating patterns. The effect comes from mixing two nearly identical compounds whose mismatched structures create magnetic tension at the atomic level. These swirling “skyrmion-like” textures are prized for their low-energy behavior and stability. The discovery could help drive advances in data storage, energy-efficient electronics, and quantum computing. Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website : globalenergyawards.org Contact Us : support@globalenergyawards.org

  Unexpected oscillation states in magnetic vortices could enable coupling across different physical systems Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have uncovered previously unobserved oscillation states—so-called Floquet states—in tiny magnetic vortices. Unlike earlier experiments, which required energy-intensive laser pulses to create such states, the team in Dresden discovered that a subtle excitation with magnetic waves is sufficient. Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website : globalenergyawards.org Contact Us : support@globalenergyawards.org

A 30-Year Physics Mystery Takes a Sharp Turn: This Bizarre Particle Doesn’t Actually Exist New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about long-standing neutrino anomalies. After many years of investigation, researchers working on the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE) have concluded that a proposed particle known as the sterile neutrino does not exist. This particle had been widely discussed as a possible answer to unresolved problems in particle physics. Reporting their findings in the journal Nature, the team has significantly narrowed the list of explanations for one of the most persistent mysteries involving neutrinos. “Neutrinos are elusive fundamental particles that are difficult to detect experimentally, yet are among the most abundant particles in the universe,” said UC Santa Barbara assistant physics professor David Caratelli, who was the physics coordinator for the experiment when this ...

Scientists Made a Flash of Light Disappear Inside a Liquid Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast moving water molecules. Inside living cells, the situation is even more intricate. Tiny liquid droplets transport proteins or RNA and help coordinate many of the cell’s chemical activities. Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website : globalenergyawards.org Contact Us : support@globalenergyawards.org

We might have just seen the first hints of dark matter An unexplained glow that appears to emanate throughout the Milky Way’s outer regions could be our first hint of what dark matter is made of, but astronomers say it is too early to know for sure. Dark matter is thought to make up 85 per cent of all mass in the universe, but physicists have never been able to detect the particles that constitute it. Global Energy Awards Nomination link : https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website : globalenergyawards.org Contact Us : support@globalenergyawards.org

Scientists Create a New Crystal That Twists Magnetism Into Exotic Swirls Researchers at Florida State University have engineered a new crystalline material whose atoms organize into unusually complex magnetic patterns. By combining chemically similar materials with competing crystal structures, the team triggered subtle instabilities that gave rise to swirling spin textures linked to emerging data storage and quantum technologies. Credit: Shutterstock Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website : globalenergyawards.org Contact Us :   support@globalenergyawards.org

  Physicists Discover a New Nuclear “Island” Where Magic Numbers Collapse For many years, nuclear physicists thought that “Islands of Inversion” existed mainly in neutron-rich nuclei. These are regions of the nuclear chart where the usual rules of nuclear structure stop working. In these rare cases, familiar magic numbers no longer apply, spherical shapes give way to distorted forms, and nuclei take on unexpectedly strong deformations. Until now, every known example involved highly exotic systems, including beryllium 12 (N = 8), magnesium 32 (N = 20), and chromium 64 (N = 40), all far removed from the stable nuclei found in nature. Global Energy Awards Nomination link: https://globalenergyawards.org/award-nomination/... Visit Our Website : globalenergyawards.org Contact Us : supportteam@sciencefather.com