Real-Life Expanding Brain Technique Is Blowing Some Minds
It’s now possible to image an entire fly brain in just a few days, according to a new study—this might sound like a…
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Why Did NASA, Lockheed Martin, and Others Spend Millions on This Quantum Computer?
Quantum computers are probably the most misunderstood of nascent technologies, which makes sense, because their very…
CERN Unveils Design for 62-Mile-Round Atom Smasher More Powerful Than the Large Hadron Collider
A scientific collaboration has released a concept design for the Large Hadron Collider’s successor, an enormous new…
Why Experts Are Skeptical of IBM's New Commercial Quantum Computer
IBM has announced the release of Q System One, or as the IBM team described it, “the world’s first fully integrated…
Ice Cores Could Solve Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Ray Mystery
New evidence confirms that an influx of cosmic rays struck the entire planet around 994 CE—and it might solve the…
Scientists Use Spinning Neutron Stars to Calibrate Atomic Clocks
The European Space Agency is synching up atomic clocks with distant, rapidly spinning neutron stars, called pulsars,…
It's Time to Plan for How Quantum Computing Could Go Wrong, Say Entrepreneurs and Physicists
Quantum computers that can crack our strongest encryption methods might be decades away—but a group of entrepreneurs…
Physicists Create Incredible 'Quark Soup' Droplets That Expand Like Little Big Bangs
The universe began with a bang—and things immediately got weird.
Why the Large Hadron Collider Is Shutting Down for Two Years
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest atom smasher, will be turned off for the next two years for upgrades.…
Where Is Dark Matter? Another Experiment Fails to Find a Signal
A dark matter experiment in South Korea may soon confirm or deny an outstanding piece of dark matter evidence.
Physicists Spot Four Black Hole Collisions, Including the Largest One Ever Recorded
Physicists have spotted four new instances of black holes colliding and sending their gravitational waves toward the…
Scientists Build Atomic Clocks Accurate Enough to Measure Changes in Spacetime Itself
Physicists have created atomic clocks so precise that they can measure deformations in spacetime itself, according to…
Expanding Universe Mystery Deepens
An important discrepancy in measurements of the universe’s acceleration has theorists wondering whether we’ve gotten…
Meet Dawn Shaughnessy, the Real-Life Alchemist Who Expanded the Periodic Table
The periodic table is chemistry’s holy text. Not only does it list all of the tools at chemists’ disposal, but its mere…
Plans Revealed for Enormous Particle Collider in China
Scientists this week released a conceptual design report for a next-generation particle accelerator in China, which…
So What's Going on With That 'Hurricane of Dark Matter?'
It’s the perfect science-fiction device: a hurricane of dark matter. Recent, real-life research has demonstrated that…
Scientists Weighed the Earth Using Ghostly Particles From Space
Scientists have to use some roundabout methods to weigh the Earth and measure what’s inside it—typically, they’ve used…
Astronomers Propose Huge New Telescope System to Understand the Most Energetic Particles Ever Detected
Astronomers have proposed a truly enormous telescope consisting of 200,000 radio receivers around the world, which…
Scientists Worldwide Are Getting Serious About Quantum Internet
It takes little more than logging on to see the flaws in today’s internet—mainly, how easy it is to steal or intercept…
Scientists Release Result from 'Astonishing' Feat of Creating and Testing Quantum Gas in Space
Last year, graduate student Dennis Becker watched from a safehouse as the MAIUS-1's sounding rocket took off from a…