Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History
Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that it’s less than 1 percent as…
A 20-foot vacuum chamber in Albuquerque takes 26 million amps from 2,160 capacitors in about 100 billionths of a second, around 200 times a year, each shot shaking the ground like a small earthquake, and the lab that runs it wants one 10 times bigger
KeysQuestions4Explore4 Sandia’s Z Machine is the most powerful X-ray source on Earth, and the lab wants to build…
Tiny Diamond Beams Could Unlock More Powerful Quantum Networks
Conceptual illustration of an integrated quantum photonic circuit in which diamond nanobeams containing quantum emitters and spins are…
Universal scaling laws for correlated decay of many-body quantum systems
Understanding the quantum dynamics of far-from-equilibrium open many-body systems is a major frontier in physics. From a fundamental…
Scientists use tiny light beam to rewrite magnetic memory at high speed
For decades, magnetic data storage has depended on the general idea of using a magnetic field to flip…
Tiny ghost particles could decide whether a dying star becomes a black hole
Tiny particles called neutrinos could help determine whether a dying massive star explodes as a supernova or collapses…
The Disconnection of the Large Hadron Collider Has Begun
CERN Director-General, Mark Thomson, visited the LHC tunnel to mark the start of the dismantling of the accelerator…
Sebastian Hassinger (The New Quantum Era): why neutral atoms lead the qubit race for now
Yuval Boger interviews Sebastian Hassinger, host of The New Quantum Era podcast, and author of a new book…
DOE releases national quantum computing roadmap following field-wide effort led by SCAC subcommittee
Editor’s note: The following article was originally published by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Fermilab…
Quantum computer simulates matter “popping into existence”
Researchers led by the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) have used a quantum simulator to observe string breaking dynamics…
JWST finds early galaxies were already spreading the ingredients for planets and life
JWST spectra reveal carbon, oxygen and silicon in gas associated with three galaxies seen when the universe was…
A photon crossed 2 billion light-years to reach Earth when physics says it shouldn’t
The highest-energy photon ever seen from a cosmic blast should have been absorbed en route, and quantum gravity…