A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all
A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path.Special relativity links space…
Mysterious Milky Way object accelerates protons beyond one quadrillion electron volts
Scientists have conclusively identified a source in the Milky Way that can accelerate protons to some of the…
Australia’s oldest computer could show us how quantum might become a reality
Peter Thorne still regularly thinks about a weekend job he had almost 70 years ago, running a computer…
Mysterious Milky Way object accelerates protons beyond one quadrillion electron volts
Scientists have conclusively identified a source in the Milky Way that can accelerate protons to some of the…
The First Temporal Photonic Crystal Advances Light into a New Dimension
When a team of physicists in Paris fabricated the world’s first temporal photonic crystal, they added a new…
CERN Experiments Detect Signs of the Universe’s Primordial Matter
Collisions between oxygen and neon nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider are revealing signs of quark–gluon plasma, the…
Fermiology-driven goniopolar transverse thermoelectricity in kagome metals
Yin, J.-X., Lian, B. & Hasan, M. Z. Topological kagome magnets and superconductors. Nature 612, 647–657 (2022). Article …
What is the breakthrough in China’s artificial sun project? A 6.5 Tesla magnet
New Delhi: China’s superconducting magnets have passed key tests at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of…
IBM’s quantum computer cuts error rates 10x in 15-minute test
IBM and University of Chicago researchers have demonstrated a quantum computing system that they say can perform a…
China hopes to banish blackouts as quantum tech puts power grid in superposition
China plans to expand the application of quantum technologies – including precision sensors and computer simulations – across…
US develops two-knob quantum simulator with precise thermal control
Scientists in the US have developed a novel way to control temperature inside a trapped-ion quantum simulator that…
Gil Kalai (Hebrew University / Reichman University): Why noise may doom quantum computers
Yuval Boger interviews mathematician Gil Kalai about his long-standing skepticism regarding scalable quantum computing. Kalai explains two main…