A monstrous magnetic field revealed: what France is really preparing
In the south of France, a revolutionary magnet powerful enough to lift an aircraft carrier has just been…
Shock demagnetization in an ambient magnetic field at the Dhala impact structure, India
Louzada, K. L., Stewart, S. T., Weiss, B. P., Gattacceca, J. & Bezaeva, N. S. Shock and static…
D-Wave Gate-Model Quantum Computing Breakthrough
D-Wave has announced its demonstration of scalable on-chip cryogenic control for gate-model qubits. They claim it is an…
Astronomers find a ghost galaxy made of dark matter
Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified an entirely new type of cosmic object. It is…
How Scientists Backed Up Qubits — Without Being Copied
Insider Brief Researchers at the University of Waterloo demonstrated that quantum information can be redundantly backed up by…
Dynamic magneto-chiral instability in photoexcited tellurium
Fukushima, K., Kharzeev, D. E. & Warringa, H. J. Chiral magnetic effect. Phys. Rev. D. 78, 074033 (2008).…
A single equation lets classical physics decode ‘quantum’ light
Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper…
The Dawn Of Quantum Advantage
Standing room only as IBM’s Borja Peropadre lays out the roadmap to quantum advantage, and why 2026 could…
He Finished High School at Age 8, Earned a PhD in Quantum Physics at 15, Now Wants to Build AI-Enhanced “Superhumans”
A 15-year-old doctoral graduate is not, in itself, a scientific development. It is a human milestone, occasionally publicised,…
Einstein Was Wrong? Quantum Experiments Just Settled a 100-Year Debate
The experiments, conducted independently by teams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Science…
Seeing Sound With A Laser
You can hear sound, of course, but what if you could see it with a laser? That’s what…
Chinese tokamak achieves progress in high-density operation
Experiments at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have confirmed the existence of “a density-free region” of the tokamak,…