Trigger-based single photons generated on demand for quantum tech
Light already carries our phone calls, videos, and emails across the world through optical fibers, but the same…
This galaxy simulation can fit so many stars and gas particles in it
Title: The First Star-by-star N-body/Hydrodynamics Simulation of Our Galaxy Coupling with a Surrogate Model Authors: Keiya Hirashima, Michiko…
Russian Researchers Test 72-Qubit Atom-Based Quantum Computer
Insider Brief Researchers at Lomonosov Moscow State University have developed and tested a 72-qubit atom-based quantum computing prototype…
Are We Living Inside A Black Hole?
Black holes are among the strangest objects in the universe. Even though we have learned a great deal…
Astronomers Uncover Mysterious Double Nucleus At The Heart Of Galaxy NGC 4486B
In a recent study, astronomers reported the discovery of a rare double nucleus in the nearby galaxy NGC…
Physicists close in on the elusive sterile neutrino
Neutrinos are extraordinarily difficult to detect, yet they are among the most abundant matter particles in the Universe.…
Astronomers May Have Found A New Way To Detect The Universe’s Hidden Dark Matter
Astronomers have proposed a radical idea: dark matter—the mysterious substance making up most of the universe’s mass, might…
New ‘dark photon’ theory would completely upend quantum physics
For centuries, most scientists have shared the belief that light behaves as both a wave and a particle.…
What To Do When Your Foucault Pendulum Stops Swinging
At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped…
Seeing Sound For Under $200
There are five general senses: touch for feels, taste for food, smell for avoiding trash, hearing for sounds,…
Dark Energy may be changing and with it the fate of the Universe
Pallab Ghosh KPNO/NOIRLab A lonely telescope in the Arizona desert tracks millions of distant galaxies to determine the…
Simulating Driven-Dissipative Quantum Spin Dynamics On Consumer Hardware
Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with real-time approximations…