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Physicists created a tiny universe and watched time emerge without a clock
Professor Giovanni Barontini at the University of Birmingham created a miniature quantum system containing approximately 24,000 atoms cooled to a few …
Scientists just broke a textbook rule of physics
Researchers from TU Wien and UC San Diego have exceeded a long-accepted limit in X-ray generation by using ultraviolet lasers to manipulate helium ato…
Einstein's equations may explain the universe without dark energy
Mathematicians at the University of California, Davis published research in Proceedings of the Royal Society A arguing that Einstein's equations may n…
Tiny magnetic vortices could help computers work more like your brain
Researchers have captured the first direct visual evidence of skyrmions dissolving from organized patterns into disordered states, opening pathways to…
Tiny ‘solar flares’ recreated in the lab may explain corona mystery
# Lab-Made Solar Flares Offer New Clue to Ancient Atmospheric Puzzle Scientists have recreated miniature solar flares in a laboratory setting, produc…
Are we about to solve the greatest mystery of the neutrino?
# China's Neutrino Experiment Targets Physics' Most Elusive Mystery Scientists have pursued one fundamental question about neutrinos for decades: how…
Physicists create a bizarre new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea
Physicists have created an unusual quantum state in ultracold atoms that contradicts conventional understanding of how matter organizes itself. The ne…
Ultraviolet laser pulses engineer diamond defects selectively, leaving quantum qubits intact
Researchers have developed a method to selectively engineer defects in diamonds using ultraviolet laser pulses while preserving quantum qubits, accord…
Scientists recreate the universe's first moments and find something they didn't expect
Researchers conducting particle collider experiments have discovered unexpected behavior in the quark-gluon plasma, the hot, dense state of matter tha…
Could we ever create artificial gravity on a spaceship?
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Quantum teleportation breakthrough: Scientists crack a 25-year entanglement challenge
Researchers have solved a quarter-century puzzle in quantum physics by developing a practical method to identify W states, a complex form of multi-pho…
Our verdict on Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s The Edge of Space-Time: a wild ride
# Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's "The Edge of Space-Time" Delivers Dense But Rewarding Physics for General Readers Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's latest book…
Crystal spacing predicts magnetic states in complex alloys better than electron count
# Crystal Spacing Outperforms Electron Count in Predicting Magnetic Properties of Complex Alloys Researchers working with intermetallic compounds hav…
Earth’s day isn’t exactly 24 hours. The reason may lie deep inside the planet
# Earth's Day Isn't Exactly 24 Hours. The Inner Core Likely Explains Why Earth's rotation speed fluctuates minutely, and scientists have identified a…
AI finds 3D shape that fills all space with a never-repeating pattern
Researchers deployed artificial intelligence to discover a three-dimensional shape that accomplishes what mathematicians long considered impossible: t…
Embracing the glitches in gravity could give us a unified theory of reality
# Glitches in Gravity Could Point Toward Physics' Holy Grail Physicists have pursued a unified theory of reality for decades, stumbling repeatedly on…
Quantum computer simulates matter “popping into existence”
# Quantum Computer Simulates Matter "Popping Into Existence" A team of scientists used a 13-ion quantum simulator to recreate the quantum process tha…
CERN has begun disconnecting the Large Hadron Collider
CERN has begun a major overhaul of the Large Hadron Collider, systematically disconnecting and replacing some of the facility's most critical componen…
Quantum computing’s “dark horse” just proved it can go universal
Researchers have demonstrated that non-Abelian anyons, exotic quantum particles long considered a potential shortcut to practical quantum computing, c…
Distant time crystals can somehow fall into the same rhythm
# Distant Time Crystals Synchronize Through Spin-Electron Coupling Researchers have discovered that time crystals separated by significant distances …