The Quark Side - Quantum Physics Podcast

Scientists Challenge What We Thought We Knew About Black Hole Event Horizons

What if a black hole’s event horizon is not the ultimate barrier we thought it was? New theoretical research suggests quantum entanglement could form across the horizon,

Quantum Entanglement Just Put the Standard Model to a New Test

Scientists from the BESIII Collaboration have used quantum entanglement to perform a new test of the Standard Model. By studying decaying Lambda hyperons, they precisely

A Cosmic Photon May Be Challenging Einstein’s Physics

A mysterious ultra-high-energy photon from the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected somehow survived a two-billion-light-year journey that standard physics says should

Einstein’s Gravity Just Entered the Quantum World

For the first time, scientists have observed Einstein’s gravity acting on an object in a quantum state. By placing rubidium atoms in different paths, the experiment test

Heat Has a Memory? A New Discovery Challenges Our Understanding

Scientists at Auburn University have developed a new framework suggesting that heat can retain a physical “memory” of past thermal events. At microscopic scales and extr

A Diamond Could Become a Quantum Sensor for the Invisible World

What if tiny imperfections inside an ordinary diamond could become powerful quantum sensors? Scientists have coordinated around 10,000 nitrogen-vacancy centers to detect

How Light Could Help Build a Unified Quantum Internet

Hollow-core gas-filled optical fibers could provide a crucial bridge between different quantum technologies. By converting light between frequencies while preserving pha

Scientists Discover a New Form of the Hall Effect That Defies a Century-Old Assumption

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a surprising new version of the Hall effect, showing that magnetic fields can generate electrical signals with

A New Theory Reveals How Space-Time Could Create Tiny Black Holes

Physicists have developed a new mathematical framework describing an exotic space-time crystal—a repeating structure that could become unstable and collapse into a micros

Bosons and Fermions Could Form an Entirely New Kind of Quantum Matter

Researchers at Monash University predict a remarkable new state of matter in which bosons and fermions could combine into stable, self-sustaining quantum droplets under e

Quantum Mechanics Is Entering a New Era of Real-World Applications

New breakthroughs in quantum mechanics are pushing scientists closer to controlling phenomena once considered purely theoretical. As researchers overcome microscopic and

CERN Reveals a Strange New State Inside the Heart of Matter

New results from CERN’s ALICE experiment are revealing how gluons behave inside atomic nuclei at extremely small scales. By studying J/ψ particles produced at high energ

A New Theory Connects Quantum Spacetime to the Universe’s Dark Energy

Could quantum uncertainty in spacetime explain both dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe? Physicist Savvas Koushiappas proposes a new framework that

When Electrons Defy the Rules: The Topological Mystery Inside an Exotic Material

Scientists have uncovered strange quantum oscillations in zirconium pentatelluride that persist under extreme magnetic fields and ultra-low temperatures. Its unusual top

Can Anything Really Travel Faster Than Light?

Why can’t anything with mass travel faster than light? Einstein’s relativity shows that the speed of light is more than a speed limit—it is a fundamental boundary imposed

CERN Recreates Matter From the Universe’s Earliest Moments

Physicists at CERN and the Niels Bohr Institute have recreated primordial matter from the early universe using surprisingly light atomic nuclei. By colliding oxygen and

A Centuries-Old Experiment Could Help Find Dark Matter

Physicists are reviving the Cavendish experiment with a modern twist to search for hypothetical milicharged particles that could make up part of dark matter. Using oscil

Could Gravitational Waves Become Trapped Inside Spacetime?

A theoretical study by Rodrigo Berté proposes a surprising connection between nanophotonics and gravitational waves. Using the concept of bound states in the continuum (B

A New Discovery Reopens the Search for Elusive Dark Matter

New research in Physical Review Letters challenges assumptions about how dark photons interacted with the early universe. Computer simulations show that nonlinear effect

A Radical New Idea Could Help Reconcile Quantum Physics and Gravity

Modern physics may need to move beyond the idea of point-like particles to reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity. A new non-local approach replaces isolate