Lightning strikes 12 times per minute on fusion engineering test platform
Century is Zap Energy’s fusion engineering test platform. Credit: Zap Energy Zap Energy has advanced its Century fusion…
Research traces 50,000 years of change
Lost forever: The thylacine was among 17 large mammal species found in one Australian cave site, representing ecosystems…
Nanoscale slots enable room-temperature hybrid states of matter in perovskite
The perovskite–nanoslot hybrid system in the ultrastrong coupling regime. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63810-7 Atoms in crystalline…
Microlightning might provide long-sought explanation for will-o’-the-wisps
Microlightning between bubbles containing air and methane. Credit: Yu Xia For centuries, people have described strange blue balls…
Scientists finally prove that a quantum computer can unconditionally outperform classical computers
Comparison of classical one-way communication lower bounds for our problem and Hidden Matching, assuming implementation on a noiseless…
AI tensor network-based computational framework cracks a 100-year-old physics challenge
Schematic illustration of the tensor-train (TT) decomposition of the Boltzmann tensor F and its application to computing the…
Quantum computer exhibit at O’Hare seeks to make the technology tangible
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Chicago has quickly emerged as a hub for quantum computing, with the state of…
Terahertz spectroscopy reveals how plant leaves manage water through stomatal openings
Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-20219-y How do plants breathe? When do they open and close the tiny…
World’s most sensitive detector tightens the net on on elusive dark matter
The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment. Credit: Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory Determining the nature…
Quantum error correction codes enable efficient scaling to hundreds of thousands of qubits
The proposed error-correction codes are scalable to hundreds of thousands of qubits and are highly efficient, serving as…