There’s a Wild Reason Scotch Tape Screeches—and It Has to Do With the Speed of Sound
You’ve got a legitimate reason to flinch when you’re peeling off a roll of Scotch tape. That annoying…
Why scientists are reexamining the Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model
For decades, cosmologists believed they had a coherent framework describing how the Universe works on its largest scales.…
Supermassive black holes can slow star growth in nearby galaxies
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Trapping Anyons in a Single Dimension May Reveal New Types of Particle : ScienceAlert
Restricting a strange class of particles known as anyons to one dimension could force them into adopting one…
NIST to introduce restrictions on non-US citizens
The precision measurement and quantum communities are upset about the secretiveness of the move and its potential damage…
You saw remnants of Big Bang as TV static happened, and you didn’t even know
Do you remember the white noise that came on television channels when no station was available? It apparently…
A thermal-noise-resilient microwave quantum network up to 4 K
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Scientists Report New Quantum Teleportation Breakthrough, Toppling a Major Barrier to Practical Quantum Communication
Chinese researchers say they have demonstrated quantum teleportation under novel conditions, in an achievement that could have significant…
Ask Ethan: Can quantum entanglement survive a black hole?
Here in our Universe, there’s a big puzzle at the heart of every black hole. According to Einstein’s…
Photons that aren’t actually there influence superconductivity
Despite the headline, this isn’t really a story about superconductivity—at least not the superconductivity that people care about,…