Google’s Time Crystal: Quantum Behavior, Not Infinite Energy
A team of researchers claims that they have discovered time-crystal behavior in a driven quantum system, rather than a source of perpetua...
Quantum Physics Explained
Quantum physics asks us to think carefully about what experiments reveal at very small scales. Its concepts can be surprising without being mystical. Explore stories about particles, measurement and quantum research, keeping mathematical or experimental findings distinct from metaphors about everyday life.
Chip-to-Chip Quantum Teleportation: What Bristol Physicists Did
Originally published 2020-02-16. In December 2019, a team from the University of Bristol and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) rep...
MIT Physicists Find Fractal Magnetic Patterns in a Quantum Material
Originally published 2019-10-27. Pete LinForth/Pixabay In October 2019 a team led by physicist Riccardo Comin at the Massachusetts Instit...
First Image of Quantum Entanglement: What Glasgow Captured
Originally published 2019-07-28. University of Glasgow In July 2019 a team at the University of Glasgow released what they described as t...
Did Physicists Reverse Time? The 2019 IBM Quantum Computer Experiment
Originally published 2019-07-27. Pete Linforth/Pixabay In 2019, a team of physicists from Russia and the United States used one of IBM...
Physicists Reversed a Quantum Computer's State, Not Time Itself
@tsarcyanide/MIPT In March 2019 a team of physicists reported that they had made a small quantum computer "go back in time". Wha...
Quantum Teleportation to the Micius Satellite Explained
In 2017 a Chinese team led by physicist Jian-Wei Pan reported the first quantum teleportation from a ground station to a satellite. What tr...
Tippett and Tsang's TARDIS: A Mathematical Model of a Time Machine
Can the laws of physics allow a real time machine? In 2017, two physicists published a paper describing, in the language of Einstein's...
Can People Absorb Each Other’s Energy? What the Science Shows
Originally published 2016-11-20. Many people know the feeling: you spend an evening with someone tense or gloomy and leave drained, or you...
How LIGO Detected Gravitational Waves From Merging Black Holes
On 14 September 2015, at 09:50:45 UTC, two detectors in the United States picked up a faint, rising "chirp" lasting about a fifth...
The Schrödinger's Cat Image: Quantum Imaging With Undetected Photons
Image: Gabriela Barreto Lemos / University of Vienna The famous "picture of Schrödinger's cat" is not a photo of a cat that ...
8 Beautiful Equations in Science and What Each One Means
Which equations do scientists call beautiful? Usually the ones that pack a huge idea into a few symbols: Einstein's field equations, Ma...
Did the Big Bang Never Happen? The 2015 Ali–Das Model Explained
In early 2015, headlines claimed that a "new model suggests the Big Bang never happened". The model in question was a theoretical...
Multiverse Theories Explained: Bubbles, Branes and Many Worlds
Is our universe the only one? Physicists take the question seriously, but there is no single "multiverse theory". Instead, severa...
Is Everything Energy? What Quantum Physics Really Says About Matter
Is it true that nothing is solid and everything is energy? Partly, and the part that is true is stranger and more interesting than the slog...
Rebuilding Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower: The 2014 Plekhanov Bid
In the summer of 2014 two Russian physicists, the brothers Leonid and Sergey Plekhanov, launched an Indiegogo campaign to build a working v...
Can Memories Be Inherited? The Emory Mouse Smell-Fear Study
Can a frightening experience leave a trace in the next generation, even in offspring that never lived through it? A widely shared 2013 study...
Gregg Braden's The Divine Matrix: Claims, Quotes and the Science
The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief is a 2007 book by the American author and lecturer Gregg Braden, published by...
Is the Universe a Hologram? What the 2013 Simulations Showed
Is the universe a hologram? The honest short answer is that nobody knows, and no experiment has shown it. What physicists have shown is that...
Quantum Reality: What Physics Says About Mind and Matter
Does quantum physics prove that matter is energy shaped by our thoughts? The honest answer is: partly yes, mostly no. Physics does show that...
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