Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light […]
Category: Physics
Merger of two massive black holes is one for the record books
Physicists with the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration have detected the gravitational wave signal (dubbed GW231123) of the most massive merger between two […]
Microsoft lays out its path to useful quantum computing
Its platform needs error correction that works with different hardware. Some of the optical hardware needed to make Atom Computing’s […]
IBM is now detailing what its first quantum compute system will look like
Company is moving past focus on qubits, shifting to functional compute units. A rendering of what IBM expects will be […]
Startup puts a logical qubit in a single piece of hardware
A bit over a year ago, Nord Quantique used a similar setup to show that it could be used to […]
Research roundup: 7 stories we almost missed
Ping-pong bots, drumming chimps, picking styles of two jazz greats, and an ancient underground city’s soundscape Time lapse photos show […]
Falcon 9 sonic booms can feel more like seismic waves
Could the similarities confuse California residents who might mistake a sonic boom for an earthquake? Perhaps, at least until residents […]
The key to a successful egg drop experiment? Drop it on its side
Skip to content Eggs are less likely to crack when dropped horizontally vs. vertically, contradicting conventional wisdom. Egg drop competitions […]
The physics of frilly Swiss cheese “flowers”
For their experiments, the authors of the PRL paper selected samples of Monk’s head cheese wheels from the Fromagerie de […]
CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
There’s a lot of matter around, which ensures that any antimatter produced experiences a very short lifespan. Studying antimatter, therefore, has […]