“Understand. Don’t Memorise”: Why Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman’s advice works better than cramming for exams
Richard Feynman | Image source: Caltech Digital Collections The night before an exam is rarely about learning. It…
The infant universe’s “primordial soup” was actually soupy » MIT Physics
MIT physicists observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma,…
Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter
The Milky Way — and in fact our entire galactic neighborhood known as the Local Group — appear…
New Discovery In Laser Technology Could Change Everything For Quantum Computing
pixalane/Shutterstock The idea behind quantum computing has existed…
Observation of dissipationless fractional Chern insulator
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World-leading quantum physicist You Chenglong leaves US for Chinese research institute
You, who was previously based at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, is regarded as a rising…
Chinese scientists achieve breakthrough in quantum computing with ‘Zhuangzi 2.0’
In the cinematic world of The Wandering Earth II, the super-intelligent AI “MOSS” navigates the impossible complexities of…
Astronomers Discover Magnetic Highways in Galaxies Merging at 1.1 Million MPH
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of astronomers has uncovered extraordinary details…
Collective photon emission and ferroelectric exciton ordering near Mott insulating state in WSe2/WS2 heterobilayers
Cai, J. et al. Signatures of fractional quantum anomalous Hall states in twisted MoTe2. Nature 622, 63–68 (2023).…
A free energy landscape analysis of resistance fluctuations in a memristive device
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Lattice surgery realized on two distance-three repetition codes with superconducting qubits
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Now Astrophysicists Will Focus Most Powerful Telescopes on it
Artist’s concept of exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b – credit, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Keith Miller (Caltech/IPAC) In a story that proves…