New ‘dark photon’ theory would completely upend quantum physics
For centuries, most scientists have shared the belief that light behaves as both a wave and a particle.…
What To Do When Your Foucault Pendulum Stops Swinging
At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped…
Seeing Sound For Under $200
There are five general senses: touch for feels, taste for food, smell for avoiding trash, hearing for sounds,…
Dark Energy may be changing and with it the fate of the Universe
Pallab Ghosh KPNO/NOIRLab A lonely telescope in the Arizona desert tracks millions of distant galaxies to determine the…
China Demonstrates Quantum Error Correction Using Microwaves, Narrowing Gap With Google
Insider Brief Chinese researchers demonstrated fault-tolerant quantum error correction below the threshold using an all-microwave control approach, marking…
Russian Researchers Test 72-Qubit Atom-Based Quantum Computer
Insider Brief Researchers at Lomonosov Moscow State University have developed and tested a 72-qubit atom-based quantum computing prototype…
Trigger-based single photons generated on demand for quantum tech
Light already carries our phone calls, videos, and emails across the world through optical fibers, but the same…
This galaxy simulation can fit so many stars and gas particles in it
Title: The First Star-by-star N-body/Hydrodynamics Simulation of Our Galaxy Coupling with a Surrogate Model Authors: Keiya Hirashima, Michiko…
Astronomers May Have Found A New Way To Detect The Universe’s Hidden Dark Matter
Astronomers have proposed a radical idea: dark matter—the mysterious substance making up most of the universe’s mass, might…
Quote of the day by Albert Einstein: ‘It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just…’ Here’s some life-changing quotes by German-born physicist
Quote of the day by Albert Einstein focuses on patience and effort in thinking. Einstein said, “It’s not…