physics Archives

16 May

International Day of Light

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
International day of light, laser, physics, technology, Theodore Maiman, UNESCO

Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-GeneralThe International Day of Light celebrates the role light plays in science, culture and art, education and sustainable development. Light continues to propel a range of diverse fields, such as medicine, communications and...

08 May

News, Review

Towards a Non-singular Paradigm of Black Hole Physics

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
black hole, Einstein, Event Horizon Telescope, LIGO, mimicker, physics, quantum, regular, Schwarzschild, singularities, theory of everything, theory of relativity

Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Francesco Di Filippo, Stefano Liberati, Matt Visser, Julio Arrechea, Carlos Barceló, Alfio Bonanno, Johanna Borissova, Valentin Boyanov, Vitor Cardoso, Francesco Del Porro, Astrid Eichhorn, Daniel Jampolski, Prado Martín-Moruno, Jacopo Mazza, Tyler McMaken, Antonio Panassiti, Paolo Pani, Alessia Platania, Luciano Rezzolla, Vania VellucciIn 1915, Einstein published his seminal work on general relativity. Also...

01 May

News, Review

Time Crystals: Defying the Laws of Physics

10 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
condensed matter, Floquet, nitrogen-vacancy, physics, quantum, quasicrystals, time crystals, Wilczek

Guanghui He, Bingtian Ye, Ruotian Gong, Changyu Yao, Zhongyuan Liu, Kater W. Murch, Norman Y. Yao & Chong Zu.In 2012, an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and Nobel Laureate named Frank Wilczek proposed the idea of a Time Crystal. Frank Wilczek is...

07 Mar

Spotlight

International Women’s Day : Standard Candles

23 February 2026
Posted by Ian Lawrence
astronomy, Cepheids, Delta Cepheus, Harvard College Observatory, Henrietta Leavitt, Hubble, International Women's Day, physics, small Magellanic clouds, standard candles

A tribute to one of the most important yet historically overlooked discoveries in modern astronomy — and the woman whose work fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.At the turn of the 20th century,...