Five Ways Quantum Technology Could Shape Everyday Life
From The Conversation By Salil Gunashekar, Senior Research Leader and Deputy Director, Science and Emerging Technology; Adam Urwick,…
High-order virtual gain for optical loss compensation in plasmonic metamaterials
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Quantum Scale Breakthrough: Scientists Measure Ultra-Short Events Lasting Just Attoseconds
Scientists have developed a novel method for measuring time at the quantum scale, a process that has proven…
Is the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy Actually a Massive Knot of Dark Matter? Sounds Crazy, But the Numbers Line Up
Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds around a dense…
Scientists Found ‘Magic’ Particles in the Large Hadron Collider
In November, Quanta magazine published a feature on the detection of “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron…
A Japanese Team’s Ultra-Precise Sensor Could Reveal How Dark Matter Flows Without Touching It
Efforts to detect dark matter have long been shaped by one core limitation: the inability to observe it…
Continuous-wave narrow-linewidth vacuum ultraviolet laser source
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America’s Largest Particle Collider Just Shut Down. Here’s What Happens Next
As foretold, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—among the most powerful heavy-ion colliders in the world, second only to…
Giant magnetocaloric effect and spin supersolid in a metallic dipolar magnet
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Newly discovered radio signal from the center of our galaxy could put Einstein’s relativity to the test
Is the ultradense core of a gigantic star lurking in the center of the Milky Way? Scientists think…
Maximizing perovskite electroluminescence with ordered 3D/2D heterojunction
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New study favors ‘fuzzy’ dark matter as the backbone of the universe — contrary to decades of research
Physicists’ top theory about the nature of the universe may be wrong, a new study of strangely warped…