Photophoresis can generate a tiny bit of lift without any moving parts. Most people would recognize the device in the […]
Tag: Physics
Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes
Hiding in the light Previously, the Cornell team had figured out how to make small changes to specific pixels to […]
Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
Other July stories: Solving a 150-year-old fossil mystery and the physics of tacking a sailboat. 150-year-old fossil of Palaeocampa anthrax […]
Peacock feathers can emit laser beams
Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light […]
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 […]