Quantum Dynamics Advance Overturns Claim of ‘Quantum Supremacy,’ Opens New Research Directions
Insider Brief Researchers at the Simons Foundation’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics and collaborators at Boston University reported…
Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Could Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…
The most accurate atomic clocks in operation now lose less than one second every 30 billion years — and the reason this matters isn’t precision for its own sake, it’s that gravity itself slows time slightly, and these clocks are now sensitive enough to measure the difference between sitting on the floor and standing upright in the same room.
There is a particular fact about the most precise atomic clocks currently in operation that the wider cultural…
The lives of black holes, from birth to death
Of all the strange and spectacular things in outer space, nothing is stranger or more spectacular than black…
Cosmic rays share a common acceleration and movement pattern- Earth.com
Cosmic ray particles come in very different sizes. Protons are light, but iron nuclei are heavy. Scientists have…
The Magnetar at the Heart of a Superluminous Supernova
If exploding stars were a fireworks display, then superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) would be the grand finale. They can…
Thermodynamic computing: noise as a resource, not an enemy – Physics World
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Particle size affects contact electrification – Physics World
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Building a better laser on the Moon – Physics World
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New theory argues quantum physics must abandon irratonal numbers and the continuum
Quantum mechanics works perfectly in experiments, but Oxford physicist Tim Palmer argues it rests on a mathematical fiction:…
The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were found to be decelerating slightly more than gravity could explain, and for thirty years physicists wondered if Newton was wrong before realizing in 2012 that the answer was the probes’ own waste heat gently pushing them backward at a billionth of Earth’s gravity.
Two NASA probes built in the early 1970s spent three decades drifting slightly off course, decelerating by about…
Physicists finally solve the strange mystery of “breathing” lasers
An international team of researchers, including a scientist from Aston University, has developed a new mathematical framework that…