Scientists from China have built a device that can trap and absorb microwaves coming from all directions with a 99% absorption rate - a property that makes the device simulate, to some extent, an astrophysical black hole.

Advances in the technology have made it possible for military testers to shoot down incoming mortar rounds with land-based lasers, and military commanders are on the verge of being able to fire laser blasts from the air that could be aimed at tanks or mines.

A major hurdle in the ambitious quest to design and construct a radically new kind of quantum computer has been finding a way to manipulate the single electrons that very likely will constitute the new machines' processing components or "qubits." Princeton University's Jason Petta has discovered how to do just that -- demonstrating a method that alters the properties of a lone electron without disturbing the trillions of electrons in its immediate surroundings.

A new computer model shows conclusively for the first time that a particle collision really can make a black hole, though the researchers are quick to point out that the experiment assumed energies a quintillion times higher than existing colliders (ex. the Large Hadron Collider).

A team of quantum physicists has taken the first steps towards using a quantum computer to predict how a chemical reaction will take place.

The authors present their new findings that the multiple "pocket universes" in the mutiverse predicted by prevailing theories in cosmology may not be inhospitable to life as previously thought and could contain life as well.

Researchers are cautiously optimistic that experiments at the Large Hadron Collider could produce tiny black holes -- not large enough to threaten the earth -- but sufficient to test theories on how black holes could be used for energy production or even starships.

Scientists from Stanford University have estimated how many different universes could have appeared as a result of the Big Bang.

Researchers in China have successfully demonstrated a theory proposed earlier this year by creating an artificial black hole using metamaterials.

Researchers announced that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration (LIGO), a huge physics experiment built to detect gravitational waves, has yet to find any. Rather than be disappointed by the null findings, physicists say the results were expected, and in fact help them narrow down possibilities for what the universe was like just after it was born.