A big step forward for optical core of China’s Taiji gravitational wave project
In the sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, humans build “gravitational wave antennas” to broadcast to the cosmos. Now,…
Time itself may have a tiny built-in flaw, physicists say
The world’s best clocks keep improving. They lose less than a second over the entire age of the…
Versions of You in Other Universes May Be Subtly Affecting Your Destiny, Oxford Physicist Says
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This 1,000 ton magnet can lift an aircraft carrier and drive the future of fusion
This 1,000 ton magnet can lift an aircraft carrier and drive the future of fusion – Futura-Sciences May…
Scientists just sent unhackable quantum keys across 120 kilometers
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is widely considered the most advanced form of quantum cryptography, offering a path toward…
Scientists just sent unhackable quantum keys across 120 kilometers
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is widely considered the most advanced form of quantum cryptography, offering a path toward…
When Will The Sun Die?
All stars go through a life cycle: they form, they spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen in…
New quantum material switches superconductivity back on at 70 Tesla
Scientists in Austria have finally uncovered the reason why a strange uranium-based superconductor appears to come back to…
Physicists have found the first signs of an exotic η′-mesic nucleus, a state of matter that could help explain where mass really comes from
Why does anything have mass? It is why a basketball feels heavy, but it is also tied to…
Scientists created exotic forms of matter that shouldn’t exist
When a magnet is brought close to iron, the force between them stays predictable as long as nothing…
Two-qubit logic and teleportation with mobile spin qubits in silicon
Bravyi, S. et al. High-threshold and low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum memory. Nature 627, 778–782 (2024). Article ADS CAS PubMed …
Good Vibrations for Quantum Communications
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated, for the first…