LHCb Announces First Single-Experiment Evidence for the Rarest Particle Decay Ever Observed

After a 42-year search, LHCb reports 3.2σ evidence for the Bd → μ⁺μ⁻ decay, a process the Standard Model predicts at roughly one in ten billion.

Cornell researchers demonstrate uranium ditelluride hosts two coexisting superconducting states

Experiments on UTe2 reveal it can sustain two distinct superconducting order parameters simultaneously, strengthening its candidacy as a material that could enable fault-tolerant quantum computing.

One Positron, Months Long: Northwestern's Quantum Cyclotron

Northwestern physicists trapped a single positron at near-absolute zero for months, building a one-particle cyclotron aimed at the most precise CPT-symmetry test yet.

A quantum tug-of-war limits cuprate superconductivity

Cuprate experiments show the pseudogap competes with superconductivity rather than helping it form.

JAXA Launches Historic Mission to Return Samples from Mars' Moon Phobos

The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission has launched, beginning a multi-year effort to study Phobos and bring the first samples back to Earth.

One-Atom-High Steps Turn Out to Be Rails for Superconducting Vortices

Researchers at Japan's MANA found that atomic-scale surface steps guide superconducting vortices, letting them move over a thousand times more easily in one direction — a result with implications for low-power superconducting devices.

First-Principles Method Predicts the Kondo Effect in Real Materials

Researchers at Caltech and Yale have developed a first-principles quantum chemistry approach to calculate the Kondo effect in real metals with unprecedented accuracy.

Study Finds Fundamental Physical Constants Constrain Liquid Viscosity Required for Life

Research by physicist Kostya Trachenko indicates that fundamental physical constants must fall within a narrow band for liquids to flow with viscosities suitable for cellular biology.

A Ghostly Superconducting State Persists Above the Transition

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have found direct evidence that pair density waves can survive in uranium ditelluride after ordinary superconductivity disappears.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Recognizes the Creators of Optogenetics

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for their work developing optogenetics, a light-based method that gives researchers precise control over individual nerve cells in living brains.

Brake failure reported, then eleven wagons into a ravine: derailment closes the line to Rijeka

A Transagent grain train derailed near Meja station on October 11, closing the Plase–Meja railway section after the driver had already reported brake failure.

Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube neutrino observatory

On 6 October 2026, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.

Astronomers confirm Elias 2-24 b as youngest known exoplanet at under one million years old

A Jupiter-size planet still gathering material from its natal disk challenges formation models with its rapid growth at 55 times Earth's orbital distance.

OpenAI claims a Lean-verified solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem, and the first objection is about who got there first

OpenAI says 10,000 coordinating AI agents spent 88 hours producing a finite-time singularity proof for the 3D Navier–Stokes equations, with a Lean formalization to back it. The trouble is that a parallel team at NYU and Anthropic posted closely related results 12 hours earlier, and one of them is now publicly asking whether OpenAI's models had access to his work.

Heaviest Particles Yet Show Quantum Entanglement Under Extreme Conditions

Physicists have observed quantum entanglement in some of the most massive and short-lived particles ever created, pushing the boundaries of quantum physics.

ATLAS finds evidence for one of the Higgs boson's rarest decays

The ATLAS Collaboration has presented first evidence of the Higgs boson decaying into a virtual photon and a real photon, a process that occurs in roughly 1 in 10,000 Higgs decays, reaching 3.4σ significance by combining Run-2 and Run-3 data.

CERN Scientists Observe Quantum Entanglement in Three-State Systems

Researchers at CERN have found strong evidence of quantum entanglement between Z bosons produced from Higgs boson decays, marking a significant step in understanding multi-state quantum systems.

Three-Triplet Trick: The Chromium Superconductor That Could Host Majorana Qubits

Researchers at Okayama University have identified three distinct spin-triplet superconducting phases in K₂Cr₃As₃, a finding that clears previous ambiguity and opens a tunable route toward topological quantum states relevant for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Chandra Observatory Identifies 84 New 'Hypersoft X-ray Sources' in Six Galaxies

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected a new class of compact binary systems that emit unusually low-energy X-rays and intense ultraviolet radiation, potentially resolving two long-standing astrophysical puzzles.

LUX-ZEPLIN logs a single event that could be the first whisper of dark matter

A single anomalous event in the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector has reached 2.6 sigma, a tentative signal that falls well short of discovery and now awaits confirmation from other experiments.

LUX-ZEPLIN logs one unexplained event — its strongest dark-matter hint to date

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment logged a single unexplained particle interaction in 220 days of data — its best dark-matter hint yet, but short of discovery thresholds.

Einstein's happiest thought, measured in a falling atom

An international team has directly observed the quantum phase of free fall for the first time, confirming that the equivalence principle survives intact when applied to a quantum object.