These striking photos are a window into the world of quantum physics | New Scientist
Marco Schioppo (back) and Adam Parke monitoring the ultra-stable laser at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, UK David Severn, Part of Quantum Untangled (2025) at Science Gallery, King’s College London
Our elegant universe: rethinking nature’s deepest principle | New Scientist
In the Altes Museum in Berlin stands a boy with his arms raised to the heavens. Aside from the right heel, which is slightly arched, this ancient Greek statue is almost perfectly symmetrical. Did the sculptor impose this balance for purely artistic reasons? Hermann Weyl thought not. We are drawn to symmetry, said the German mathematician, because it governs the very order of the universe.
Ghostly particles might just break our understanding of the universe | New Scientist
Neutrinos rarely interact with normal matter Shutterstock / betibup33
Notoriously ghostly particles called neutrinos may have revealed a crack in our understanding of all the particles and forces in the universe.
Physicists stirred up controversy with scientific cooking tips in 2025 | New Scientist
A smooth cacio e pepe pasta sauce can be hard to achieve Brent Hofacker/Alamy
Scientists’ new recipes for a classic pasta dish and boiled eggs were among the most talked-about science stories of 2025, provoking delight and fury in equal measure.
A controversial experiment threatened to kill the multiverse in 2025 | New Scientist
The multiverse was proposed as a way to make sense of bizarre quantum behaviour VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
A physics experiment published this year that claimed to measure a single photon in two places at once – and, in the process, discredit the idea of a multiverse – drew pushback from many sceptical physicists, but the scientists behind the demonstration stand by their claim.
Inside world's ultimate X-ray machine before it becomes more powerful | New Scientist
An illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity, a key component of SLAC’s LCLS-II X-ray laser
Physicists used 'dark photons' in an effort to rewrite physics in 2025 | New Scientist
Dark photons offer a new explanation for the double-slit experiment RUSSELL KIGHTLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
A core tenet of quantum theory was imperilled this year when a team of researchers put forward a radical new interpretation of an experiment about the nature of light.
Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer | New Scientist
Quantum particles can now be made to carry useful information for longer koto_feja/Getty Images
The odd phenomenon of quantum superposition has helped researchers break a fundamental quantum mechanical limit – and given quantum objects properties that make them useful for quantum computing for longer periods of time.
How 3 imaginary physics demons tore up the laws of nature | New Scientist
There is a long history of doing physics by imagination. Albert Einstein built his special theory of relativity after imagining himself chasing a beam of light. Erwin Schrödinger gave us a cat that was both alive and dead. The German mathematician David Hilbert demonstrated the counterintuitiveness of infinity by imagining a hotel with an infinite number of rooms and guests. By taking creative liberties, physicists use thought experiments to stress-test ideas and so better understand them.
Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits | New Scientist
