Black Holes and Dark Revelations: Gravitational Waves Provide New Clues to the Composition of Dark Matter
A population of massive black holes whose origin is one of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy has been detected by the LIGO and Virgo…
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Quantum Light Droplets Unveil New Realms of Macroscopic Complexity
Scientists have advanced the field by stabilizing exciton-polaritons in semiconductor photonic gratings, achieving long-lived and optically configurable quantum fluids suitable for complex system simulations. Researchers…
Quantum Shadows: Revolutionary Method Reveals Images Hidden in Noise
Innovative quantum-inspired imaging technique excels in low-light conditions, offering new prospects in medical imaging and art conservation. Researchers at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of…
The Quantum Boomerang: Light’s New Twisting Tale
Researchers have manipulated light to exhibit quantum backflow, a step towards understanding complex quantum mechanics and its practical applications in precision technologies. Scientists at the…
Groundbreaking Quantum Leap: Physicists Turn Schrödinger’s Cat on Its Head
Researchers from the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Physics, in collaboration with experts from the QOT Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies, have pioneered an innovative…
Nuts About Science: The Brazil Nut Effect Shakes Up Physics
Physicists from the University of Utrecht and the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw have observed — for the first time experimentally —…
A Revolutionary New Physics Hypothesis: Three Time Dimensions, One Space Dimension
How would our world be perceived by observers moving faster than light in a vacuum? According to theorists from Warsaw and Oxford universities, such a…
Physicists Prove That the Imaginary Part of Quantum Mechanics Really Exists!
An international research team has proven that the imaginary part of quantum mechanics can be observed in action in the real world. For almost a…
Second Order Optical Merons, or Light Pretending to Be a Ferromagnet
Scientists have demonstrated how to structure light such that its polarization behaves like a collective of spins in a ferromagnet forming half-skyrmions (also known as…
Rogue Planet About the Size of Earth Discovered in the Milky Way
Our Galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets, gravitationally unbound to any star. An international team of scientists, led by Polish astronomers, has announced the…
SOFISM: Microscopy Beyond the Resolution Limit
The Polish-Israeli team from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and the Weizmann Institute of Science has made another significant achievement in…
Tiny Micromotor Is Powered Directly With Light
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, with colleagues from Poland and China used liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a…
Massive Photons Trapped in an Artificial Magnetic Field
An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK, and Russia has created a two-dimensional system — a thin optical cavity filled with liquid crystal —…
New Quantum Dots Design for Solotronics
Researchers at the University of Warsaw have created and studied two new types of solotronic structures, including the world’s first quantum dots containing single cobalt…
Stellar Collisions Between Massive Stars, Not Anytime Soon
New research presented at the 10th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves suggests that stellar collisions between massive stars with masses between 200 and 300…
Particles with Mass Experience Different Space-Times
Recent analyses from a team of physicists at University of Warsaw suggest that not all elementary particles are subject to the same space-time. Before the…