Scientists discover atoms suddenly spinning backward in quantum experiment
An international team of researchers has directly observed how angular momentum moves through a crystal lattice for the…
ATLAS observes new Bc meson excited state
The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first observation of the Bc*+ meson – a new composite particle state containing…
Infleqtion Reports New Advances in Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing
Insider Brief Infleqtion announced multiple advances in neutral-atom quantum computing spanning software, hardware, atom transport, and gate fidelity…
“Different Flows of Time All Exist at the Same Moment”: Scientists Claim Trapped-Ion Atomic Clocks Can Observe “Quantum Superposition of Time”
An international team of researchers has demonstrated a theoretical framework showing that state-of-the-art trapped-ion atomic clocks could be…
Quantum ‘Jamming’ Could Help Unlock the Mysteries of Causality
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For the past few decades, researchers have understood…
A slice of the static on an old untuned television was the afterglow of the Big Bang, which means millions of people spent decades staring at the oldest light in the universe without knowing it.
The claim is true, though the version of it that gets repeated most often is softer than it…
Stephen Hawking’s father worried his son ‘does not study much’, diaries reveal | Stephen Hawking
In exploring the physics and geometry of the universe, Stephen Hawking became a world-renowned pioneer of black hole…
Tuning Into Quantum Sounds – www.caltech.edu
When a singer belts out a tune while a guitar player strums along, sound waves travel through the…
Probing the quantum metric of 3D topological insulators
Hasan, M. Z. & Kane, C. L. Colloquium: Topological insulators. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045–3067 (2010). Article CAS …
Supermassive Black Holes Can Render Exoplanets Uninhabitable at Great Distances
The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet’s distance from its star. Too close, and…
Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 3: Tiny Chemistry Labs
(This is Part 3 of a series on cosmic dust. Read Part 1 and Part 2 first.) But…
Entangled photons open up potential applications of anti-scattering optics – Physics World
Entangled photons open up potential applications of anti-scattering optics – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…