Is the Speed of Sound the Same on Mars as on Earth?
The speed of light in a vacuum is the same anywhere you measure it in the universe, according to Einstein’s special theory of relativity. Whether…
Physics
Why Did the Champagne Bottles on the Titanic Not Explode?
When the Titan, a tragic submersible, imploded when the crew attempted to explore the Titanic wreck in June 2023, people began asking a lot of…
“The Ultimate Catastrophe”: Is It Possible For A Bomb to Light Up the Atmosphere?
J. Robert Oppenheimer tells Albert Einstein, “When I came to you with those calculations, we thought we might start a chain reaction that might destroy…
Unlocking the Magnetic Superpowers of Topological Magnets
In the ever-changing landscape of condensed matter physics, a recent breakthrough has emerged from the joint efforts of researchers at the Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-1),…
Solid-state Qubits: Forget About Cleanliness, Embrace The Mess
New research debunks the notion that solid-state qubits must be very dilute in an ultra-clean material to have a long lifetime. Instead, squeeze many rare-earth…
The Gauge Symmetry Principle Constrains the Dynamics of Rotating Black Holes
The LIGO/Virgo experiment, a large-scale scientific endeavor headquartered at two sites in the United States, discovered gravitational waves for the first time in 2015. This…
Engineers Combine Laser Light With Crystal Lattice Vibrations to Improve the Optical Properties of 2D Materials
Engineers at Columbia University and theoretical partners at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter discovered that combining laser light with…
Measuring Neutrinos Created in the Atmosphere of the Earth Can Reveal the Order of Their Masses
A group of physicists, three from Harvard University’s Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, and a fourth from the University of…
The Effect of Superconducting Diodes is being Investigated
The superconducting diode effect, a quantum effect that allows dissipationless supercurrent to flow in only one direction, has been reviewed by scientists. The SDE adds…
A New Qubit Circuit enables more Accurate Quantum Operations
Researchers have created a novel superconducting qubit architecture that can perform operations between qubits with far greater precision than scientists have previously achieved. This architecture,…
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