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…
A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned
Aerodynamic drag is a major “barrier” in high-speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains. This is because a design…
The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Now Scientists Know Why
An international team of astrophysicists has found evidence that the universe recycles black holes, merging them to form…
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…
Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…
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…
The dominance of turbulence over magnetism in the formation of massive star cluster seeds
Beuther, H., Kuiper, R. & Tafalla, M. Star formation from low to high mass: a comparative view. Annu.…
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…