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12 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 6, 2026.
The levitated sensor can register a nudge one-hundredth the width of an atom. Over a month of quiet nights it saw nothing — and that silence rules out a swath of ultraheavy dark matter nine orders of magnitude wide.
Niobium diselenide is a promising two-dimensional superconductor that starts corroding the instant it meets oxygen. Researchers solved it by growing the crystal inside a gap less than a nanometer wide — under the protective layer instead of beneath it.
The new TES detector at Germany's BESSY II synchrotron, cooled to near absolute zero, can probe atom-thin materials and ultra-dilute samples that were previously impossible to study.
A Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf team has captured the first-ever atomic-resolution view inside lanthanum superhydrides, ending a decade of theoretical guessing about how they superconduct.
MIT physicists have directly imaged, for the first time, the collective oscillations of superconducting electrons using a terahertz-light microscope — an observation that could unlock the physics behind high-temperature superconductivity.
By squeezing terahertz light smaller than its own wavelength, MIT physicists captured the synchronized quantum oscillations of Cooper pairs in BSCCO — a step toward understanding room-temperature superconductivity.
Physicists at MIT have directly observed the quantum oscillations of electrons inside a superconductor for the first time in history, publishing results in Nature that could accelerate the search for room-temperature superconductors and next-generation wireless technology.
A niobium-rhenium alloy identified at NTNU can carry both electrical and spin current with zero resistance, a breakthrough theorists have been predicting for fifteen years and that could reshape quantum computing hardware.
Using spintronic terahertz emitters to circumvent the diffraction limit, physicists led by Alexander von Hoegen observed for the first time the collective oscillation of Cooper pairs inside a superconducting copper-oxide material — a breakthrough that could accelerate the development of room-temperature superconductors.
A team at the University of Geneva has experimentally confirmed a 20-year-old theoretical prediction, measuring a hidden curvature in quantum materials that could unlock faster electronics and better superconductors.
A revolutionary terahertz microscope has captured quantum oscillations inside superconducting electrons for the first time, opening a new window on one of physics' greatest puzzles.
PtBi2 defies every known rule. Its surfaces pair electrons in a six-fold pattern never seen before.