Lumina Simulation Recreates Universe's First Two Billion Years
Researchers used the Lumina model on the Frontier supercomputer to simulate the early history of the cosmos in unprecedented detail.
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November 7, 2026
Physicists Find No Material Can Be Perfectly TransparentResearchers show that quantum effects cause even the clearest light-bending materials to absorb some light.
November 6, 2026
Pokémon Go Launches Gigantamax Machamp ResearchPokémon Go's 2026 Wild Area events kick off in Sendai, Japan and Mexico City, with a Gigantamax Machamp Timed Research set available to players worldwide.
November 6, 2026
Study Rules Out Huge Black Holes as Dark MatterPhysicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz used Planck satellite data to exclude a candidate explanation for dark matter.
November 6, 2026
Team Builds Three-Component Hubbard SystemAn international research team created a laboratory system with tunable interactions and observed a Mott insulator state.
November 5, 2026
KM3NeT Finds No Break in Lorentz InvarianceUnderwater neutrino detector data show particles behaving as Einstein's relativity predicts over a 1.4-year observation window.
November 5, 2026
Chinese Team Chills Atoms Colder Than Earth RecordResearchers aboard the Tiangong space station cooled rubidium atoms to the lowest temperature ever measured.
November 5, 2026
Laser Accelerators Could Reach Water-Window X-RaysSimulations suggest a compact laser-plasma system could generate x-rays suited to imaging biological samples in water.
November 5, 2026
Study Proposes Gravitational Wave Test Using Moon TidesA Freie Universität Berlin mathematician has published a framework for searching lunar tides for relativistic effects in The Astrophysical Journal.
November 5, 2026
HKU Professors Named 2026 APS FellowsGiulio Chiribella and Shizhong Zhang are among the physicists elected Fellows of the American Physical Society this year.
November 3, 2026
Davis Wins 2026 Michael Faraday MedalThe Institute of Physics honors J.C. Séamus Davis for sustained contributions to experimental physics, including macroscopic quantum phenomena.
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The beat runs across experimental results from major facilities, Nobel Prize announcements and the research they recognize, gravitational wave detection events, quantum computing and communications milestones and the theoretical advances that reframe understanding of fundamental phenomena. Large-scale physics experiments require years of construction and data collection before producing results, giving the field a longer story arc than most science coverage — with facility announcements, commissioning, first results and full analysis each generating their own news cycle. Quantum mechanics has expanded from a physics subject into a technology and national security subject as quantum computing and communications have attracted government investment and export controls. Physics Nobel announcements generate some of the most widely read science coverage of the year, since the prize often reaches scientists and research that had not previously been accessible to general audiences.