Scientists Get Unprecedented Look at the Universe’s Conditions Right After the Big Bang with LHC
Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have taken a giant leap forward in understanding the conditions…
Space Is Dead Silent – But There Is a Way to ‘Hear’ a Black Hole : ScienceAlert
If you were to drift, suitless, through the vacuum of space, the brief moments before your death would…
Ripples in spacetime may have revealed 1st evidence of tiny black holes born in the Big Bang
Ripples in the very fabric of space and time called “gravitational waves” may have provided the first tantalizing…
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
Despite all we’ve learned about star formation, the process is still riven with mystery. Our prying telescopic eyes…
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…