A ‘direct wave’ from colliding black holes reveals signature of a whirlpool in spacetime
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren’t always silent. When…
NSF Selects Five New Teams for National Quantum Virtual Laboratory
National Science Foundation GovernmentUnited States · 1001-5000 FTEs The National Science Foundation, situated in Alexandria, Virginia, is a…
Top quantum computer expert claims Microsoft’s ‘topological qubit’ doesn’t hold up
A top quantum computing expert assails Microsoft’s claims that it has a “topological qubit,” arguing in a new…
How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino
Seventy years ago, the physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines took a custom-built 10-ton detector, surrounded it with…
Inertial migration of spherical particle in shear flow of shear-thinning fluids | Journal of Fluid Mechanics
3.1. Effect of Carreau number, viscosity ratio and power-law index We begin by examining the influence of shear…
Harvesting UV Light from sunlight just got ‘solid’ – EurekAlert!
Harvesting UV Light from sunlight just got ‘solid’ EurekAlert!Solid-state material turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity,…
Elliot McGucken Suspends Einstein’s ‘Light Cones’ Over Desert Expanses — Colossal
Albert Einstein once said that “the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the…
IQM Says New Quantum Codes Cut Logical Error Rates by Up to 1,000 Times
Insider Brief IQM Quantum Computers reported a quantum error-correction advance using directional tile codes, a new family of…
DOE Unveils Quantum Genesis Push to Accelerate Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Insider Brief The U.S. Department of Energy launched the Quantum Genesis initiative to develop and deploy a fault-tolerant,…
A Russian cosmonaut named Sergei Krikalev has physically travelled further into the future than almost any other human being in history — across six spaceflights and 803 cumulative days at orbital velocity, Einstein’s theory of special relativity has made him approximately 0.02 seconds younger than other people his age
Einstein’s special theory of relativity, published in 1905, made a number of strange predictions about how time and…
The first ticking ‘nuclear clocks’ are here
Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using…
Pathway to High-Fidelity Quantum Computing Identified in New Research
Insider Brief University of Sydney and IBM researchers identified mid-circuit measurement noise as a key barrier to reliable…