What is Quantum Teleportation? How scientists made a breakthrough for the first time
In 2024, researchers achieved what was long thought impossible: quantum teleportation over the internet. A quantum state of…
Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning To Dissolve?
Thus the wave function can’t tell us what the quantum system is like before we measure it. By…
What’s Really Behind This Unexplained Particle Decay? Scientists Say It’s Something Big!
A surprising and rare particle decay has left scientists puzzled as kaons, particles made up of quarks, are…
On-chip non-Hermitian cavity quantum electrodynamics
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America’s Largest Particle Collider Just Shut Down. Here’s What Happens Next
As foretold, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—among the most powerful heavy-ion colliders in the world, second only to…
Quantum imaging with correlated photon pairs
Strekalov, D., Sergienko, A., Klyshko, D. & Shih, Y. Observation of two-photon “ghost” interference and diffraction. Phys. Rev.…
Helical metasurfaces based on topological surface states in three-dimensional photonic topological insulators
Huber, S. D. Topological mechanics. Nat. Phys. 12, 621 (2016). Article CAS Google Scholar Yang, Z. et al.…
Scientists Caught Sperm Ignoring a Major Physical Law : ScienceAlert
Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton’s third law…
Controversy that has divided quantum physics since 1927 is settled
A single trapped atom has been used to carry out Einstein’s proposed test of the double-slit experiment, a…
Scientists Discover Time Crystals You Can Hold—and They Levitate
Last year, physicists created a time crystal—atomic arrangements repeating motion patterns—visible to the naked eye. But the latest…
Scientists pair AI and human knowledge to tackle notoriously difficult physics question
The currents of the oceans, the roiling surface of the sun and the clouds of smoke billowing off…
What is at the center of our galaxy? It may not be a black hole
At the center of the Milky Way sits Sagittarius A*, long believed to be a supermassive black hole.…