CU Boulder Physicists Create Psychedelic Tiger Stripe Patterns That Dance in Perpetual Motion
IN A NUTSHELL 🔬 Researchers at CU Boulder unveiled the first-ever time crystal visible to the human eye,…
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…
‘A potential innovative design path’
Photo Credit: DIII-D National Fusion Facility Experiments at San Diego’s DIII-D National Fusion Facility have demonstrated that a…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Scientists say there is a 90% chance of witnessing a black hole explosion in next 10 years
According to the theory by Stephen Hawking, black holes emit particles and radiation, which leads to them gradually…
Graphene just broke a fundamental law of physics
For several decades, a central puzzle in quantum physics has remained unsolved: Could electrons behave like a perfect,…
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…