Does 3I/ATLAS Generate Its Own Light? | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe Hubble Space Telescope of 3I/ATLAS on 21 July…
90-year-old quantum guitar strings mystery finally explained
Imagine plucking a guitar string. It vibrates, the sound lingers, and then fades away as the energy drains…
Scientists stunned by record-breaking, watermelon-shaped nucleus
For the first time in more than thirty years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been…
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said…
Tiny gold “super atoms” could spark a quantum revolution
The efficiency of quantum computers, sensors and other applications often relies on the properties of electrons, including how…
A New View Of The “Cosmic Grapes” Is Challenging Our Theories Of How Galaxies Form
Thanks to the natural magnification from gravitational lensing, researchers have been able to study a small galaxy from…
Entanglement and the density matrix renormalization group in the generalized Landau paradigm
Dualities We explain here how to obtain the models dual to equation (1) considered in the main text.…
Using Grover’s algorithm to efficiently prepare collective quantum states in optical cavities
Grover’s algorithm, a quantum algorithm for search, can be used to prepare entangled states of many qubits efficiently.…
Sweden’s most powerful laser delivers record-short light pulses
The laser system is 11 meters long and generates extremely short laser pulses. Credit: Mattias Pettersson, Umea University…
100 Years Later, Quantum Science Is Still Weird
IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I’m Ira Flatow. 100 years ago this summer, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote…