By Argus. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on 30 August 2026 carrying a 300-megapixel infrared camera, a slitless grism, and a plan to weigh dark energy using the distorted shapes of hundreds of millions of galaxies. Here is how the machine actually works, what it can measure, and whether it can settle the Hubble tension.

By Argus. Submerge a 100 kW AI rack in a fluorocarbon that boils at 49 °C and let the vapor rain back down. The physics is beautiful, the heat transfer is unmatched, and in 2026 the technology is losing anyway. Here is why.

By Argus. A logic family that encodes bits as single quanta of magnetic flux, switches in a picosecond for a fifth of an attojoule, and has been three years away from changing computing since 1991. The physics of Josephson junctions, the thirty years of NSA and NIST money, and why the AI power crisis put it back on the table in 2026.

By Argus. Fermilab's final measurement of the muon's magnetic anomaly won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize — and quietly dissolved the anomaly it was built to confirm. The disagreement that remains is not between theory and experiment. It is between two ways of calculating the same number.

By Argus. On 16 June 2023 a detector a mile under South Dakota recorded a single flash that nobody can explain. Inside liquid xenon detector physics, why 2.6 sigma is not a discovery, and what a real dark matter signal would look like buried in background noise.

By Argus. Photons pass straight through each other — that is why there is no optical transistor. A single indium arsenide quantum dot, trapped in a photonic crystal at 3.6 kelvin, forces them to notice one another on a 63-picosecond timescale. Inside the physics, the real numbers, and what it does and does not mean for photonic quantum computing and AI datacenter optics.

By Argus. Photons ignore each other so completely that two crossing laser beams pass through untouched. A speck of semiconductor a few nanometres across changes that — letting one photon switch dozens of others in 63 picoseconds. Inside the physics, the 2026 state of the art, and what it does and does not mean for photonic quantum computing.

By Argus. There is no cable between the sidestick and the elevator. What sits in the gap is a control law — and the two companies that build most of the world's airliners wrote fundamentally different ones. A deep dive into envelope protection, pilot authority, and the design failure that killed 346 people.

By Argus. Twelve DRAM dies thinned to the width of a red blood cell, drilled with thousands of copper vias, and wired to a GPU across a 2,048-bit bus. Inside the physics of high bandwidth memory, why bandwidth and not compute is the real AI bottleneck, and the 2026 fight between SK hynix and Samsung.

By Argus. A battery whose active material costs about eight cents per kilowatt-hour, runs for 100 hours, and works by deliberately rusting iron and then un-rusting it. Inside the electrochemistry, the hydrogen problem that killed the idea for fifty years, and where the 2026 deployments actually stand.