The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves
In 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to…
New quantum sensors aim to detect hidden forces behind dark matter
For decades, you have heard scientists say that most of the universe is missing. They are not being…
Do Aliens Speak Physics? And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
When we imagine contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we tend to picture messages: radio signals, mathematical codes, or perhaps…
MIT quantum breakthrough edges toward room-temp superconductors
Superconductors work like express trains for electricity. Once electric current enters one, it can travel through without resistance…
Behold Helios, the Most Powerful Quantum Computer on the Planet
Computing firm Quantinuum has provided the hardware for many outstanding feats in quantum computing over the past few…
Dark Matter May Be Shining at the Center of Our Galaxy
Nearly fifteen years ago, scientists spotted something strange in the gamma-ray sky—a faint but persistent glow at the…
The Unique Kitchen Appliance Designed By Albert Einstein That No One Ever Used
Bettmann/Getty Images Whether you know him as the…
If you fell into a black hole, would you survive? What new research says about spaghettification |
Picture yourself drifting in space, caught in the pull of a black hole. The idea feels like pure…
Fractional quantization in insulators from Hall to Chern
Klitzing, K. V., Dorda, G. & Pepper, M. New method for high-accuracy determination of the fine-structure constant based…
Strong coupling of a superconducting flux qubit to single bismuth donors
In this work, we couple spins to a highly non-linear circuit with huge current quantum fluctuations18,19,20. This circuit…
physicist and director-general of CERN
When Herwig Schopper arrived in Ithaca, upstate New York, one Saturday in 1960 to spend a year working…
High-speed antiferromagnetic domain walls driven by coherent spin waves
Hinzke, D. & Nowak, U. Domain wall motion by the magnonic spin Seebeck effect. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107,…