This Universe Map Took 5 Years to Build, and It’s Already Challenging Einstein
Scientists using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument have finished a five-year sky survey, producing a cosmic map that…
IonQ Researchers Say ‘Walking Cat’ Blueprint Could Lead to Machines That Run Millions of Gates on Thousands of Qubits
Insider Brief Researchers at IonQ have published a detailed end-to-end blueprint for a fault-tolerant quantum computer based on…
Scientists Discover Path to ‘Extreme Light Intensities’ That Could Enable Ultra-Powerful Laser Weapons and Advanced Tech
An international team of physicists has announced a “significant advance” in laser science that offers engineers a practical…
Physicist Bends Light With Gravity to Make New Mobile Sensing Device
Astrophysicists talk a lot about gravitational lensing, one of the more fun aspects of light’s infamous particle-wave duality.…
The Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Detected Could Be Primordial
In the exotic world of particle physics, neutrinos may be the most mysterious members. They rarely interact with…
Physicists achieve breakthrough in creating high-intensity laser light
An international team has demonstrated a new method for producing the most intense light ever generated in a…
Soundwaves settle debate about elusive quantum particle
It was a head-spinning discovery. In 2018, researchers in Japan claimed to find concrete evidence of an elusive…
Electronic origin of reorganization energy in interfacial electron transfer
Chemicals and materials Natural Kish graphite crystals (Grade 300, 99.99% purity) were procured from Graphene Supermarket. Hexagonal boron…
Planckian scattering and parallel conduction channels in an iron chalcogenide superconductor
Hsu, F.-C. et al. Superconductivity in the PbO-type structure α-FeSe. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 105, 14262–14264 (2008).…
Solving the Black Hole Paradox May Require Seven Dimensions
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The Mechanics of Alien Waves
One of the most dramatic and memorable scenes from Interstellar comes from Miller’s planet – and if you…
AI just discovered new physics in the fourth state of matter
Physicists have used a machine learning approach to reveal unexpected details about how particles interact in complex systems.…