Quantum Mechanics May Not Need Imaginary Numbers After All
Quantum mechanics has long relied on complex numbers to describe the strange behavior of particles, from tunneling to…
Physicists finally build a quantum material predicted more than a decade ago
Physicists from the University of Jyväskylä and Aalto University in Finland have successfully created a two dimensional topological…
Astronomers Use a Neutron Star Merger to Measure Cosmic Expansion
For roughly a century, scientists have known that our Universe is in a constant state of expansion. Known…
Scientists Say Some Black Holes Are Born From Other Black Holes
Since LIGO’s Nobel-winning discovery of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime—the U.S.-based detector has been picking up on hundreds of…
Force-based reading and writing of individual single-atom magnets
Herein, we utilize holmium (Ho) adatoms on MgO as single-atom magnet, a system that is regarded as a…
Trying to break a photon would create a quantum mess
electron: A negatively charged particle, usually found orbiting the outer regions of an atom; also, the carrier of…
We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
Thamires Lima, a research professor in chemical engineering at Drexel University, studies the properties of thick, viscous liquids…
An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet
This final measured value came in incredibly close to Einstein’s general relativity predictions, carrying a tiny margin of…
Scientists achieve the impossible by creating matter from empty space
Something has been lurking in empty space, and for the first time, physicists may have caught it leaving…
Physicist Explains How to “Bend it Like Beckham”
It contributed to soccer legend David Beckham’s record number of goals on direct free kicks, and entered popular…
Magnetic quantum material enables one-way electrical transport
Scientists at Penn State and Saint Louis University have demonstrated that a magnetic quantum material can naturally produce…
New study explains why some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise
Some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise, such as from ventilation systems, heat pumps, wind turbines and…