A ‘direct wave’ from colliding black holes reveals signature of a whirlpool in spacetime
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren’t always silent. When…
Scientists Recreate a Quantum Mystery in a Water Tank – and Discover Something Completely New
OIST PhD student Aditya Singh generates and observes surface waves that act as a classical analogue to quantum…
Chiral laser gyroscopes breaking the lock-in limit
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A new quantum computer sets a high watermark for accuracy – are we on the verge of a big breakthrough?
In a laboratory in Broomfield, Colorado, 98 atoms are suspended in mid-air, held in place by electric fields…
NSF Selects Five New Teams for National Quantum Virtual Laboratory
National Science Foundation GovernmentUnited States · 1001-5000 FTEs The National Science Foundation, situated in Alexandria, Virginia, is a…
Top quantum computer expert claims Microsoft’s ‘topological qubit’ doesn’t hold up
A top quantum computing expert assails Microsoft’s claims that it has a “topological qubit,” arguing in a new…
“It’s very exciting.” An astronomer has seen light from just after the birth of the Universe. Now he’s sharing it with the world
We’ve known about the first light to shine through the Universe for some time. First detected in 1964,…
New superconducting X-ray detector is up to 1,000 times more sensitive
A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between…
Harvesting UV Light from sunlight just got ‘solid’
image: A new solid-state material from Kyushu University turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity. By…
Inertial migration of spherical particle in shear flow of shear-thinning fluids | Journal of Fluid Mechanics
3.1. Effect of Carreau number, viscosity ratio and power-law index We begin by examining the influence of shear…
New superconducting X-ray detector is up to 1,000 times more sensitive
A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between…
Sterically protected π-electron systems for efficient solid-state photon upconversion
Takata, T. et al. Photocatalytic water splitting with a quantum efficiency of almost unity. Nature 581, 411–414 (2020).…