Physicists saw the nuclear spin of a single atom changing states
Scientists watched the nuclear spin of a single titanium atom switch in real time. They saw its state…
How understanding nothingness might just explain everything
If you’ve ever ready anything about cosmology, you’ll have come across an astonishing statistic: all the matter around…
NASA supercomputer unlocks Sun’s magnetic heart
Deep beneath the surface of the sun lies a razor-thin transition zone called the tachocline. Despite being only…
New quantum breakthrough could transform teleportation and computing
The concept of quantum entanglement is emblematic of the gap between classical and quantum physics. Referring to a…
Gravitational wave cry of baby black hole kicked away from its birth site heard for 1st time
Astronomers have for the first time measured the speed and direction of a newborn black hole, thanks to…
Ask Ethan: Where does cosmic dust come from?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array
Gisin, N., Ribordy, G., Tittel, W. & Zbinden, H. Quantum cryptography. Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 145–195 (2002). Article …
Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres
image: Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at…
Physicists Made a Time Crystal We Can Actually See
Of all the eccentricities of the quantum realm, time crystals—atomic arrangements that repeat certain motions over time—might be…
Dirac waves gain new control in terahertz devices
Can you squeeze light into a space hundreds of times smaller than its natural wavelength? It sounds impossible,…
It’s quieter than emptiness — Big-Bang echoes point to a two-billion-light-year hollow
Do you know that the most universally agreed-upon theory about the creation of the cosmos itself remains the…
A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe
A black hole unlike any seen before has been spotted in the early universe. It’s huge and appears…