AI just supercharged the race to find room temperature superconductors
Machine learning is giving scientists a powerful new way to search for superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with…
Multimodal scanning-probe quantum sensing of quantum materials
Degen, C. L., Reinhard, F. & Cappellaro, P. Quantum sensing. Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 035002 (2017). Article Google…
Altermagnetic spintronics | Nature Physics
Šmejkal, L., Sinova, J. & Jungwirth, T. Beyond conventional ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism: a phase with nonrelativistic spin and…
Scientists Develop Framework to Distinguish Quantum Gravity Signatures
Insider Brief Researchers developed a theoretical framework showing that many proposed signatures of quantum gravity can instead be…
Oak Ridge, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM Demonstrate Quantum Simulations for Fusion Materials
Insider Brief Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM have performed quantum computer-based calculations of…
In 1851, a French physicist suspended a metal ball from a 67-metre wire, and it became one of the first direct proofs that the Earth rotates |
Most of us accept that the Earth rotates because we have been taught it since childhood. We have…
Nobel Prize-winning creator of blue LEDs is focused on laser-based nuclear fusion power
Shuji Nakamura already transformed the world once. His invention of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) changed everything about our…
Physicist Roger Penrose has spent decades arguing that consciousness isn’t something the brain produces, but that explaining it will require physics we haven’t yet discovered
Roger Penrose does not think a computer will ever be conscious, and he does not think a brain…
How Sound Waves Can Be Visualized by Placing Candles in Front of a Speaker
Physicist Helen Czerski of BBC Earth demonstrated how sound waves can be visualized by placing tea candles in…
New Quantum Sensor Opens a Window Into the Invisible Universe
A breakthrough quantum sensor has shown it can uncover hidden signals through overwhelming noise, paving the way for…
Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider
It’s difficult to overstate just how much the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has helped advance our understanding of…
Scientists may have finally solved the black hole information paradox
For decades, physicists have wrestled with one of the deepest puzzles in modern science: the “black hole information…