Best Science Stories of 2025
Using quantum mechanics to track trains Steve Foot and Steve Venables, TFL & Joe Cotter, Imperial College London…
Scientists reduce the time for quantum learning tasks from 20 million years to 15 minutes
Learning how a physical system behaves usually means repeating measurements and using statistics to uncover patterns. That approach…
LZ detector marks a new era in the search for light dark matter and neutrinos
Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of…
For the first time ever, researchers made a photon travel back in time
Shattered glass does not leap back into your hand. Smoke from a match does not gather itself and…
Chinese scientists create super stable building block for quantum computers
Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei and his team have created a “quantum Lego block” that refuses to fall apart…
Record-breaking quantum material could outpace every semiconductor
Scientists at the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada say they have achieved the…
Scientists Discover New Quantum ‘Pinball’ State of Matter Where Electrons Break the Rules
Researchers at Florida State University have uncovered a previously unknown quantum phase of matter in which electrons behave simultaneously…
Reading a quantum clock takes more energy than operating it
The steady tick of a clock usually feels simple and dependable. Something swings or vibrates in a controlled…
448-qubit milestone puts fault-tolerant quantum computing within reach
Researchers at Harvard, publishing in the journal Nature on Monday, have demonstrated a new quantum system that can…
Scientists miniaturize quantum optics to boost next-gen processors
Germany has taken another major step toward realizing scalable quantum computers with the launch of SmaraQ, a collaborative…
MIT gets first ‘direct view’ of exotic superconductivity in graphene
By developing a novel technique to get a “direct view” of its properties, MIT physicists have reported a…
Scientists create new time crystals that are visible to the naked eye
If you were able to visualize the passage of time, it may appear as looping ribbons of color,…