What Makes Us Human: Making as searching
“What Makes Us Human?” is a biweekly column in which Emi Sakamoto ’28 investigates the interdisciplinary criteria whereby…
The Dots That Broke the Rules
What are the little red dots? It’s the question that has quietly obsessed astronomers since the James Webb…
Return of the Boltzmann Brains: Why a Bizarre Hypothesis Suggests the Past May Be Harder to Prove Than We Think
The idea that memories might not correspond to real events but could actually be illusions created by chance…
New ‘trick’ fixes major flaw in neutral-atom quantum computers — inching us closer to a superpowerful system
Researchers have created a new type of “quantum operation” that is dramatically more stable than previous methods. The…
Tunable polaritonic topologies generated by non-local photonic modes
Topology provides a foundational framework for understanding a wide range of natural phenomena1,2,3. Among its key manifestations are…
Wormholes: The Cosmic Portals That Defy Spacetime
In the vast, uncharted expanse of the universe, few cosmic concepts capture the human imagination quite like wormholes—hypothetical,…
What is Quantum Entanglement?
Insider Brief Quantum entanglement describes correlated quantum states where measuring one particle affects the outcome of another, regardless…
Higher-order harmonics in Josephson tunnel junctions due to series inductance
Blais, A., Huang, R.-S., Wallraff, A., Girvin, S. M. & Schoelkopf, R. J. Cavity quantum electrodynamics for superconducting…
In Quantum Gravity, the Cosmological Constant May Behave Similar To The Quantum Hall Effect
Trying to solve quantum gravity is frustrating. We have made tremendous progress in quantum theory, but it seems…
Laser mode braiding on a chip
Adams, C. C. The Knot Book (American Mathematical Society, 2004). Yang, Y. et al. Non-abelian physics in light…
Physicists May Be on the Verge of Discovering “New Physics” at CERN
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as…
Free Energy from the Vacuum? Warp Drive Pioneer Unveils Battery-Free ‘MicroSparc’ That Allegedly Draws Power from the Quantum Vacuum
Casimir Inc, a company founded and led by former DARPA-funded NASA warp drive pioneer and founder of the…