New superconducting X-ray detector is up to 1,000 times more sensitive
A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between…
Inertial migration of spherical particle in shear flow of shear-thinning fluids | Journal of Fluid Mechanics
3.1. Effect of Carreau number, viscosity ratio and power-law index We begin by examining the influence of shear…
Harvesting UV Light from sunlight just got ‘solid’
image: A new solid-state material from Kyushu University turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity. By…
Sterically protected π-electron systems for efficient solid-state photon upconversion
Takata, T. et al. Photocatalytic water splitting with a quantum efficiency of almost unity. Nature 581, 411–414 (2020).…
A company outside Boston just craned the second 48-ton half of a steel donut into Tokamak Hall and pushed its compact fusion reactor to 75% built, a machine chasing more energy out of fusion than it puts in by 2027, twelve years before the cathedral-sized ITER in France
KeysQuestions4Vehicle1 Commonwealth Fusion Systems just craned the second half of a 48-ton steel donut into place, proving that…
IQM Says New Quantum Codes Cut Logical Error Rates by Up to 1,000 Times
Insider Brief IQM Quantum Computers reported a quantum error-correction advance using directional tile codes, a new family of…
The first ticking ‘nuclear clocks’ are here
Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using…
What Is Quantum Computing and What Can Quantum Computers Do?
Four decades ago, physicists were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make…
A Russian cosmonaut named Sergei Krikalev has physically travelled further into the future than almost any other human being in history — across six spaceflights and 803 cumulative days at orbital velocity, Einstein’s theory of special relativity has made him approximately 0.02 seconds younger than other people his age
Einstein’s special theory of relativity, published in 1905, made a number of strange predictions about how time and…
Pathway to High-Fidelity Quantum Computing Identified in New Research
Insider Brief University of Sydney and IBM researchers identified mid-circuit measurement noise as a key barrier to reliable…
Infleqtion Welcomes Executive Order on Quantum Technology
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Infleqtion (NYSE: INFQ), a global leader in quantum computing and quantum sensing powered by neutral-atom technology, today…
Aegiq Uses NVIDIA cuQuantum to Develop Quantum-Ready CFD Methods
Aegiq is developing quantum-ready computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods that use tensor network techniques to improve the efficiency…