Breakthrough Technique Reveals Atomic Secrets of Record-Breaking Superconductors
Artistic representation of the interior of a diamond anvil cell. A copper-colored, multi-stage Lenz lens is placed on…
This strange new phase of matter could transform quantum technology
Researchers from Brown University and the University of Michigan have achieved something that scientists had only imagined until…
Scientists Say Quantum Physics Could Actually Allow Messages To Travel Back In Time
Dkosig/Getty Images In 2014, Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” wowed…
This strange new phase of matter could transform quantum technology
Researchers from Brown University and the University of Michigan have achieved something that scientists had only imagined until…
Stanford quantum computing breakthrough uses twisted light to work without extreme cooling
Quantum computers today are notoriously difficult and expensive to operate. Most require temperatures near absolute zero, about -459…
Stanford quantum computing breakthrough uses twisted light to work without extreme cooling
Quantum computers today are notoriously difficult and expensive to operate. Most require temperatures near absolute zero, about -459…
The Force That Holds Atoms Together May Be Driving the Universe Apart
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The universe is expanding faster every second, and physicists…
Something Revealed Itself by Bending the Light of a Distant Star in 2019—Now Astronomers Are Racing to Find Out What It Was
For just an hour in late 2019, a cosmic mystery revealed itself to astronomers in an unprecedented way:…
The ghost in the machine is real: How physicists finally tracked down the hidden force disrupting CERN’s most powerful accelerator |
Deep beneath the Swiss countryside, inside a ring of machinery nearly four miles across that has been running…
The surface of the Sun is around 5,500 degrees, but its outer atmosphere is more than a million degrees hotter, and after decades of work physicists still cannot fully explain how the cooler layer heats the one above it.
The visible surface of the Sun, the photosphere, sits at around 5,500 degrees Celsius. Its outer atmosphere, the…
Spin waves travel along Z-shaped path 5,000 times more efficiently
Researchers have invented a new way to efficiently guide spin waves around sharp corners with minimal loss –…
Physicists make quantum mechanics breakthrough
Physicists put a single chunk of metal into two places at once, the largest object ever shown to…