“Shadow Blaster” Galaxy Might Have Sent High-Energy Neutrino to Earth
This series of images zooms in on the Shadow Blaster galaxy, seen at submillimeter wavelengths (gold). The leftmost…
Top quantum computer expert claims Microsoft’s ‘topological qubit’ doesn’t hold up
A top quantum computing expert assails Microsoft’s claims that it has a “topological qubit,” arguing in a new…
How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with…
The first ticking ‘nuclear clocks’ are here
Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using…
New superconducting X-ray detector is up to 1,000 times more sensitive
A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between…
New superconducting X-ray detector is up to 1,000 times more sensitive
A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between…
Inertial migration of spherical particle in shear flow of shear-thinning fluids | Journal of Fluid Mechanics
3.1. Effect of Carreau number, viscosity ratio and power-law index We begin by examining the influence of shear…
Harvesting UV Light from sunlight just got ‘solid’
image: A new solid-state material from Kyushu University turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity. By…
Elliot McGucken Suspends Einstein’s ‘Light Cones’ Over Desert Expanses — Colossal
Albert Einstein once said that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the…
Sterically protected π-electron systems for efficient solid-state photon upconversion
Takata, T. et al. Photocatalytic water splitting with a quantum efficiency of almost unity. Nature 581, 411–414 (2020).…
A company outside Boston just craned the second 48-ton half of a steel donut into Tokamak Hall and pushed its compact fusion reactor to 75% built, a machine chasing more energy out of fusion than it puts in by 2027, twelve years before the cathedral-sized ITER in France
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Commonwealth Fusion Systems just craned the second half of a 48-ton steel donut into place, proving that…
IQM Says New Quantum Codes Cut Logical Error Rates by Up to 1,000 Times
Insider Brief IQM Quantum Computers reported a quantum error-correction advance using directional tile codes, a new family of…