How Ghana helped secure UN recognition for quantum science
play videoMichele Dougherty (behind mic) is President of the Institute of Physics in UK Ghana took centre stage…
Five ways quantum technology could shape everyday life
The unveiling by IBM of two new quantum supercomputers and Denmark’s plans to develop “the world’s most powerful…
One image tracks the same cosmic object across space and time. It’s all down to a strange quirk of physics
The hottest topic in astronomy is what exactly the little red dots (LRDs) hiding in JWST images really…
The Largest US Particle Collider Stops Its Collision
FLORA LICHTMAN: Hey, it’s Flora Lichtman. And you’re listening to Science Friday. RHIC, the only large particle collider…
A simple discovery is shaking the foundations of spintronics
One of the most striking findings in spintronics is unusual magnetoresistance (UMR). In this effect, the electrical resistance…
Non-equilibrium entropy production and information dissipation in a non-Markovian quantum dot
Landauer, R. Irreversibility and heat generation in the computing process. IBM J. Res. Dev. 5, 183–191 (1961). Article …
In a first, US scientists turn exciton superfluids into supersolids
In a first, scientists at Columbia University in New York and the University of Texas in Austin turned…
46 years ago, Carl Sagan beautifully explained the fourth dimension using a sliced apple
How do you explain the concept of a fourth dimension to humans who are only able to see…
Physicists discover what controls the speed of quantum time
“The concept of time has troubled philosophers and physicists for thousands of years, and the advent of quantum…
Watch a Man Get Launched Off a Truck at 50 MPH, for Science
You’ll sometimes hear scientists say that the most exciting thing in science is a discrepancy between a theory’s…
Something Far Darker Than a Black Hole Could Hide in The Heart of The Milky Way : ScienceAlert
There’s no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new…
Highly sensitive and stable perovskite detector for ultrahigh-energy radiations via dynamic repair regulation
Cao, Z. et al. Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 petaelectronvolts from 12 γ-ray Galactic sources. Nature 594, 33–36…