Why Movie Stars Can’t Resist an Award Show About Particle Physics
If there’s one thing movie stars can’t resist, it’s a scientist who can measure the wobble effect of…
Retrotechtacular: Julius Sumner Miller Breaks Lamps With Magnets
If you watched the Mickey Mouse Club way back when, you might remember Professor Wonderful, who was, in…
Physicists Propose Strange Experiment Where Time Goes Quantum
Physicists are beginning to explore whether time itself can behave according to the rules of quantum mechanics rather…
Quantum Algorithms May Add Shine to Surface Coatings
Insider Brief A German-funded consortium has launched the €2.4 million QPolyDeg project to use quantum computing to simulate…
Q-CTRL Delivers 3,000x Speedup in Materials Discovery for the Energy Sector with Quantum Computing
Insider Brief Q-CTRL demonstrated a materials science simulation on the IBM Quantum Platform that completed more than 3,000…
Are your memories real? Physicists revisit the Boltzmann brain paradox
In a new study, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst…
AQT Reports Quantum Volume of 32768 on LYNX System
Insider Brief AQT announced that its LYNX quantum computer achieved a Quantum Volume of 32768, the highest reported…
What Is The Farthest Thing We Can See In Space?
The observable universe is roughly 93 billion light-years across, and almost everything inside it is too faint, too…
After Decades, MIT Researchers Capture the First 3D Atomic View of a Mysterious Material
Using a technique called multi-slice electron ptychography (MEP), researchers move a nanoscale-sized probe of electrons over a material…
Scientists connect “time crystal” to real device in quantum breakthrough
A shimmering crystal gets its colorful appearance from the precise arrangement of its atoms in space. In 2012,…
Scientists Model Sound Physics of a 300-Year-Old Stradivarius and It Could Change How Violins Are Made
Credit: ZME Science. A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few…
The Big Bang didn’t happen millions of years ago: it’s happening right now
We often think of the Big Bang as a remote event, an explosion of matter and gas lost…