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…
Now Astrophysicists Will Focus Most Powerful Telescopes on it
Artist’s concept of exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b – credit, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Keith Miller (Caltech/IPAC) In a story that proves…
NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars
New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the…
James Webb captures the sharpest map of dark matter ever created
The Dark Matter distribution in the COSMOS field observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Credit: Gavin Leroy/Professor…
The infant universe’s “primordial soup” was actually soupy » MIT Physics
MIT physicists observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma,…
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