This Supernova Progenitor Hid Behind a Surprisingly Thick Veil of Carbon Dust
Supernovae explosions are hard to miss. When they explode, they can outshine all of the stars in their…
Starlight warped in the fabric of spacetime could help us find hidden black holes dancing together
Two supermassive black holes on a dizzying death spiral could soon become visible to astronomers after researchers worked…
Simulating fermions with a digital quantum computer
Manin, Y. Computable and Uncomputable (Sovetskoye Radio, 1980). Feynman, R. P. in Feynman and Computation, 133–153 (CRC Press,…
Understanding the Quantum Computing Hardware Landscape
Insider Brief Quantum computing encompasses multiple hardware approaches built on different physical foundations, and the field can be…
The everlasting ‘memory crystals’ that could slash data centre emissions
Malik says there are more practical ways of addressing the problem of “hot data” energy consumption in the…
Scientists develop theory for an entirely new quantum system based on ‘giant superatoms’
An “echo” that arrives before you finish speaking sounds like a glitch. In quantum hardware, that kind of…
The most powerful ‘ghost particle’ ever detected is still a mystery
Physicists think they may have figured out where an extremely powerful, nearly undetectable particle that hit Earth came…
Sensing with discrete time crystals
Principle: prethermal DTC lifetime extension by a.c. fields The system consists of a diamond crystal with 13C nuclear…
Six-state clock physics in an atomically thin antiferromagnet
Mermin, N. D. The topological theory of defects in ordered media. Rev. Mod. Phys. 51, 591 (1979). Article …
Scientists teleport quantum data 19 miles across Berlin in live test
Researchers in Berlin have teleported quantum data across a 19-mile loop of commercial fiber in one of the…
Dark matter and neutrinos are linked and interact with each other
A quiet shift in the numbers behind the universe’s growth is pushing scientists toward a bold possibility. Two…
Scientists break the speed of light — This laser went “back” in time and came out of the box before it went in
You’ve been told one rule about the universe your entire life: nothing moves faster than light. It’s the…