Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Dark energy does not exist, some scientists have claimed – which could help get rid of one of the universe’s biggest mysteries. For a century ...

"Up to this year, most observations were consistent, with dark energy being the cosmological constant. Nonetheless, 2024 was full of hints pointing out this might not be the case." 2024 was a big ...

Quantum confinement enhances the binding energy of excitons, which are electron-hole pairs formed upon light absorption. The increased exciton binding energy results in stronger light-matter ...

This confinement leads to discrete energy levels for the charge carriers, a phenomenon exploited in various electronic and optoelectronic applications. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC-SA 3.0) The ...

The symmetron model is one of the most compelling theories of dark energy ... in-plane confinement of polaritons and drastically improved lasing. Most existing developments in quantum ...

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

This image was captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter ...

Dark energy does not exist, some scientists have claimed – which could help get rid of one of the universe’s biggest mysteries. For a century, scientists have thought that the universe was ...