Scientists Built A Tiny ‘Universe’ And Let Time Grow Inside It
The ‘cloud’ inside the glass cell is a magneto-optical trap of rubidium atoms at a temperature of ~0.0001…
Physicists Built Quantum States So Strange They Only Existed In Theory, Until Now
Reconstructed Wigner function of a superposition of two trisqueezed states. Its sixfold rotational symmetry and regions of Wigner…
What physics says about dying
A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but…
New US laser technology could unlock 100,000-qubit quantum computers
Researchers in the US have developed a new technique that could allow quantum computers to scale to well…
Physicists Shatter Quantum Computing Record
In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom,…
Scientists create quantum ‘telephones’ to connect long-distance atoms
Researchers in Australia have successfully created ‘quantum entangled states’ between two distant atoms in silicon. Engineers from the…
New laser helps decode rare earth element samarium’s secret spectrum
Scientists in Germany have uncovered previously unknown properties of the rare Earth element samarium by developing a powerful…
Astronomers See Inside The Core of a Dying Star For the First Time, Confirm How Heavy Atoms Are Made
An illustration of the ‘extremely stripped’ supernova 2021yfj. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure…