Non-equilibrium entropy production and information dissipation in a non-Markovian quantum dot
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Watch a Man Get Launched Off a Truck at 50 MPH, for Science
You’ll sometimes hear scientists say that the most exciting thing in science is a discrepancy between a theory’s…
Something Far Darker Than a Black Hole Could Hide in The Heart of The Milky Way : ScienceAlert
There’s no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new…
46 years ago, Carl Sagan beautifully explained the fourth dimension using a sliced apple
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In a first, US scientists turn exciton superfluids into supersolids
In a first, scientists at Columbia University in New York and the University of Texas in Austin turned…
Highly sensitive and stable perovskite detector for ultrahigh-energy radiations via dynamic repair regulation
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Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?
If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp…
Are there Hidden Dimensions to the Universe? Part 3: The Graviton Tower
This is Part 3 of a series on large extra dimensions. Read Parts 1 and 2. To test…
A Dense Clump Of Dark Matter, Not A Supermassive Black Hole, Could Reside In The Milky Way’s Center.
For years the scientific consensus was that a supermassive black hole (SMBH) resides in the center of the…
Winners of International Quantum Year science-journalism competition picked – Physics World
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How do scientists hunt for dark matter? A physicist explains why the mysterious substance is so hard to find
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an…
Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and it could upend both particle physics and cosmology
An impossibly powerful “ghost particle” that recently slammed into Earth may have come from a rare type of…