How Sound Waves Can Be Visualized by Placing Candles in Front of a Speaker
Physicist Helen Czerski of BBC Earth demonstrated how sound waves can be visualized by placing tea candles in…
Physicist Roger Penrose has spent decades arguing that consciousness isn’t something the brain produces, but that explaining it will require physics we haven’t yet discovered
Roger Penrose does not think a computer will ever be conscious, and he does not think a brain…
New Quantum Sensor Opens a Window Into the Invisible Universe
A breakthrough quantum sensor has shown it can uncover hidden signals through overwhelming noise, paving the way for…
Quantum mechanics once baffled scientists. Now it’s changing the world
For much of the early 20th century, quantum mechanics was one of the most puzzling ideas in science.…
Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider
It’s difficult to overstate just how much the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has helped advance our understanding of…
University of Michigan-Led Quantum Photonics Project Receives $4 Million NSF Award
Insider Brief Phase 2 adds $4M to the $1M pilot award, enabling the team to design connectable quantum…
Excitons in van der Waals magnetic materials
Xu, X., Yao, W., Xiao, D. & Heinz, T. F. Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides.…
How astrophysicist Arthur McDonald’s summer job at a power plant came full circle
Open this photo in gallery: Photo Illustration by The Globe and Mail. Sources: Queen’s University, Getty Images Even…
Physicists Create an Exotic New Form Of Matter: The ‘Fermi Sea’
At the lowest temperatures in the Universe, physics gets funky. When atoms are cooled to just above absolute…
TU Wien Researchers Find Entanglement in ‘Strange’ Metal
Insider Brief TU Wien researchers found evidence of high multipartite quantum entanglement in a centimetre-sized strange-metal crystal made…
Spin-photon qubits for scalable quantum network
Lodahl, P. Scaling up solid-state quantum photonics. Science 362, 646–646, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav3076 (2018). Article ADS Google Scholar Chanelière, T.…
Physicists Create an Exotic New Form Of Matter: The ‘Fermi Sea’ : ScienceAlert
At the lowest temperatures in the Universe, physics gets funky. When atoms are cooled to just above absolute…