The Monotony and Solitude of a Quiet Life Stimulates the Creative Mind
Albert Einstein believed that the creative mind requires conditions most people spend their lives trying to escape. In…
A physicist explains what the Kardashev scale gets wrong
In the mid-20th century, while Carl Sagan pioneered the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the U.S., eminent…
Understanding what technology can (and can’t) do
Quantum computing draws attention because it can potentially solve problems classical computers struggle with, such as molecular simulations…
Efficiency-optimized relativistic plasma harmonics for extreme fields
Experimental details The experimental results presented in this paper were obtained using the Gemini laser system. A DPM…
Diamonds Get a Little Squishy at the Nanoscale. Here’s Why
Familiar materials will act differently at the smallest scales. Notably, diamonds—typically hard and brittle—grow strangely soft at the…
The Simulation So Accurate It’s Making Astronomers Do Double-Takes
For decades, computer models of galaxy formation have relied on a significant shortcut: preventing the simulated gas inside…
humanity would have to wait 1,000 years to test it
A new scientific paper is adding fresh fuel to one of space science’s most stubborn daydreams, a “warp…
Laser-induced nucleation of magnetic hopfions
Specimen preparation FeGe TEM specimens were prepared from a single crystal of B20-type FeGe using a standard lift-out…
The quantum arrow of time can be reversed, physicists show
The arrow of time marches forward. Eggs don’t uncrack; milk doesn’t unspill. But now new research has found…
Gravity measured in 300,000 galaxies follows Newton’s law
A new analysis has found that gravity follows Newton’s inverse-square law across hundreds of millions of light-years, even…
Two-electron quantum walks for probing entanglement and decoherence in an electron microscope
Lloyd, S. Universal quantum simulators. Science 273, 1073–1078 (1996). Article ADS MathSciNet Google Scholar Bloch, I., Dalibard, J.…
Mississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the lab
For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam inside…