Hitoshi Murayama, winner of APS Lilienfeld Prize, on understanding the universe
Theoretical physicist Hitoshi Murayama has spent his career studying the fundamental building blocks of matter — tiny particles…
Stanford discovers an extraordinary crystal that could transform quantum tech
Stanford engineers have discovered a standout material, strontium titanate (STO), that performs even better in extreme cold. Instead…
First Close-Up of a Star Outside Our Galaxy Reveals a Strange Cosmic Phenomenon That’s Baffling Experts
At a distance of 160,000 light-years, an aging red supergiant star in a neighboring galaxy has become the…
Do Aliens Speak Physics? And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps…
MIT quantum breakthrough edges toward room-temp superconductors
Superconductors work like express trains for electricity. Once electric current enters one, it can travel through without resistance…
If you fell into a black hole, would you survive? What new research says about spaghettification |
Picture yourself drifting in space, caught in the pull of a black hole. The idea feels like pure…
Dark Matter May Be Shining at the Center of Our Galaxy
Nearly fifteen years ago, scientists spotted something strange in the gamma-ray sky—a faint but persistent glow at the…
The Unique Kitchen Appliance Designed By Albert Einstein That No One Ever Used
Bettmann/Getty Images Whether you know him as the…
Fractional quantization in insulators from Hall to Chern
Klitzing, K. V., Dorda, G. & Pepper, M. New method for high-accuracy determination of the fine-structure constant based…
Strong coupling of a superconducting flux qubit to single bismuth donors
In this work, we couple spins to a highly non-linear circuit with huge current quantum fluctuations18,19,20. This circuit…
physicist and director-general of CERN
When Herwig Schopper arrived in Ithaca, upstate New York, one Saturday in 1960 to spend a year working…
Dual epitaxial telecom spin-photon interfaces with long-lived coherence
Fiber-integrated Er3+ qubit chip Figure 1 illustrates the schematic of our Er3+ qubit device. The die chip consists of…