Improving the reliability of circuits for quantum computers | MIT News
Quantum computers could someday solve pressing problems that are too convoluted for classical computers, such as modeling complex…
Finnish Physicist Named European Inventor Award Finalist for Quantum Hardware Research
Insider Brief Finnish physicist Mikko Möttönen was named a finalist for the 2026 European Inventor Award for developing…
Wormholes: The Cosmic Portals That Defy Spacetime
In the vast, uncharted expanse of the universe, few cosmic concepts capture the human imagination quite like wormholes—hypothetical,…
At 8 Billion Light Years Away, This Laser Just Set Records
Scientists have discovered a microwave laser beam 8 billion light-years away that’s…
High-energy x-ray workshop trains next generation of synchrotron researchers
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) will host its annual High Energy X-ray Techniques (HEXT) School next week, bringing graduate…
Are our memories real, or just a trick of the Universe?
Physics gives your memory its alibi. The Second Law of Thermodynamics – the rule that says disorder always…
New experiment deepens the mystery over gravitational constant
Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, the force that keeps…
Laser turns metal into star-like plasma in trillionths of a second
Laser fusion research has a measurement problem. The critical physics – what happens in the first trillionths of…
Physicists Solve Major Challenge in Quantum Synchronization
An artistic representation of nonreciprocal quantum synchronization. RIKEN researchers have proposed a novel approach for the nonreciprocal quantum…
Scalable generation of massive Schrödinger cat states via quantum tunnelling
Feynman, R. P. The Role of Gravitation in Physics: Report from the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference Vol. 5…
In 1964, a strange background noise led two scientists to uncover how the universe began |
Back in 1964, the two scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson found themselves at Bell Labs with a…
Correlated insulator in the kagome flat band of a two-dimensional electrostatic crystal
A key challenge in condensed-matter physics is understanding strongly interacting quantum systems where many-body correlated states such as…