A Physicist Was Testing a Vacuum—and Stumbled Upon the First Viable Blueprint for a Warp Drive
For decades, the idea of the warp drive—an incredibly cool, incredibly hypothetical cheat code for crossing impossible distances…
Scientists achieve 99.9% accurate quantum gates across 17,000 qubits
Scientists in Switzerland have come closer to building stable quantum computers after developing a swap gate made of…
Scientists Just Caught Atoms in Two Places at Once for the First Time, Marking a Quantum Breakthrough
Physics has long operated under two frameworks that refuse to get along. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity governs…
What is quantum computing? 10 terms everyone should know
Quantum computing has long felt like a perpetual promise — a mysteriously powerful technology that’s always “about 10…
Scientists Spot a Solar Flare With Surprising Spectral Behavior
On August 19, 2022, solar astronomers using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on the Hawaiian island…
A Baby Star Blows A Giant Gaseous Ring
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Quantum computers keep losing data. This breakthrough finally tracks it
Quantum computers hold enormous promise, but they are still far from dependable. Their biggest weakness is instability, which…
Orazio Svelto (1936–2026) | Nature Photonics
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Scientists thought there was a black hole at the centre of our Galaxy. It turns out it may be something even stranger
Astronomers have proposed a radical alternative to the long-held belief that a supermassive black hole sits at the…
What if dark matter came in two states?
image: The constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) is home to Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. Messier…