Physics cuts put livelihoods, investment and reputation at risk
Cutting the UK out of the Electron-Ion Collider project will damage science, says Daria Sokhan On the last…
Five ways quantum technology could shape everyday life
The unveiling by IBM of two new quantum supercomputers and Denmark’s plans to develop “the world’s most powerful…
One image tracks the same cosmic object across space and time. It’s all down to a strange quirk of physics
The hottest topic in astronomy is what exactly the little red dots (LRDs) hiding in JWST images really…
A simple discovery is shaking the foundations of spintronics
One of the most striking findings in spintronics is unusual magnetoresistance (UMR). In this effect, the electrical resistance…
Physicists discover what controls the speed of quantum time
“The concept of time has troubled philosophers and physicists for thousands of years, and the advent of quantum…
Watch a Man Get Launched Off a Truck at 50 MPH, for Science
You’ll sometimes hear scientists say that the most exciting thing in science is a discrepancy between a theory’s…
Something Far Darker Than a Black Hole Could Hide in The Heart of The Milky Way : ScienceAlert
There’s no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new…
Highly sensitive and stable perovskite detector for ultrahigh-energy radiations via dynamic repair regulation
Cao, Z. et al. Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 petaelectronvolts from 12 γ-ray Galactic sources. Nature 594, 33–36…
Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?
If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp…
Non-equilibrium entropy production and information dissipation in a non-Markovian quantum dot
Landauer, R. Irreversibility and heat generation in the computing process. IBM J. Res. Dev. 5, 183–191 (1961). Article …
How magnetic fields could help solve one of the universe’s biggest mysteries
It’s well established that the universe is expanding, but there’s serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it’s…
A Dense Clump Of Dark Matter, Not A Supermassive Black Hole, Could Reside In The Milky Way’s Center.
For years the scientific consensus was that a supermassive black hole (SMBH) resides in the center of the…