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…
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…
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…
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…
A mysterious galaxy defies science: astronomers stunned by its motionless core
A mysterious galaxy defies science: astronomers stunned by its motionless core – Futura-Sciences May 22, 2026 4 min…
Oxygen-centred planar orbitals in the electronic structure and spin-density-wave reconstruction of multilayer nickelates
Bednorz, J. G. & Müller, K. A. Possible high Tc superconductivity in the Ba–La–Cu–O system. Z. Phys. B…
Negative time could be real as light appears to exit atoms before entry
Physicists have just uncovered fresh evidence for a bizarre quantum phenomenon called negative time, where photons appear to…
New quantum sensor could count individual photons and hunt dark matter
Researchers in Finland have achieved a major advance in ultra-sensitive measurement technology by detecting an amount of energy…