Observation of dissipationless fractional Chern insulator
Neupert, T., Santos, L., Chamon, C. & Mudry, C. Fractional quantum Hall states at zero magnetic field. Phys.…
Large Hadron Collider reveals ‘primordial soup’ of the early universe was surprisingly soupy
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A binary model of long-period radio transients and white dwarf pulsars
Buckley, D. A. H., Meintjes, P. J., Potter, S. B., Marsh, T. R. & Gänsicke, B. T. Polarimetric…
Supernova whose light will ‘reappear’ in 60 years could solve the biggest problem in cosmology
Two incredibly rare supernovas that erupted billions of years ago provide a unique opportunity to explain cosmology’s biggest…
Chinese scientists achieve breakthrough in quantum computing with ‘Zhuangzi 2.0’
In the cinematic world of The Wandering Earth II, the super-intelligent AI “MOSS” navigates the impossible complexities of…
The Schrödinger equation just turned 100, and quantum physicists are still grappling with its mysteries
A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted…
Stanford’s Optical Cavity Arrays Offer a Path Toward Million-Qubit Quantum Systems
Insider Brief Researchers led by Stanford University demonstrated scalable optical cavity arrays that enable fast, parallel readout of…
Astronomers Discover Magnetic Highways in Galaxies Merging at 1.1 Million MPH
In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of astronomers has uncovered extraordinary details…
A free energy landscape analysis of resistance fluctuations in a memristive device
Lanza, M. et al. The growing memristor industry. Nature 640, 613–622 (2025). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Bhatti,…
Lattice surgery realized on two distance-three repetition codes with superconducting qubits
Shor, P. W. Fault-tolerant quantum computation. In Proc. 37th Conference on Foundations of Computer Science 56–65 (IEEE, 1996);…
New optical method bypasses light’s limit by 100,000× to image atoms
For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the tiny world. Microscopes use…
“Red Geyser” Galaxies Have Plenty of Star-Forming Gas But Don’t Form Stars
We see stars as the main constituent of galaxies. They’re the visible part, and they’re what announce a…