U.S. Commission on China Calls for ‘Quantum First’ National Goal by 2030, Recommends Significant Funding
Insider Brief A federal commission is urging Congress to adopt a “Quantum First” national goal by 2030 to…
Brownian spin-locking effect | Nature Materials
Anderson, P. W. Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices. Phys. Rev. 109, 1492 (1958). Article CAS Google…
Astronomers Witness the Moment a Fatal Shockwave Bursts Through the Surface of a Star
Supernovas, the catastrophic explosions that follow the collapse of a star, are essential to our understanding of the…
Cryogenic atomic clock could reset the limits of precision timekeeping
Scientists in Toronto have unveiled a chilling breakthrough, a laser-regulated atomic clock cooled to just five degrees above…
How Three Runaway Stars Solved A Galactic Mystery
All motion is relative. That simple fact makes tracking the motion of distant objects outside our galaxy particularly…
It’s like 36 billion Suns — Cosmic “monster” discovered inside a mysterious bubble
Over the past decade, the concept of scale has often been used to understand the universe, like comparing…
As our black hole images get more detailed, we may find Einstein wasn’t quite right about them
New research suggests future images of black holes could be precise enough to allow scientists to determine if…
100 billion stars using 7 million CPU cores
Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution after…
ID830 is the most X-ray luminous radio-loud quasar, observations find
Artist’s rendering of the accretion disk in ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a supermassive black…
Light-controlled material changes shape in 1D, 2D, or 3D on demand
In the future, there could be materials that can reconfigure themselves on demand, adapting their structure and properties…