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A quantum computer at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center.Credit: Connie Zhou for IBM A team of researchers in China has unveiled a technique that — theoretically — could crack …
Are quantum computers about to break online privacy? Read MoreThis article originally appeared on 10.27.17 These days, the name Albert Einstein is basically a synonym for “genius.” Einstein’s theory of relativity is one of the cornerstones of modern physics …
Einstein was a physics genius. But his passion his might have been civil rights. Read MoreQuantum computers hold the promise of performing certain tasks that are intractable even on the world’s most powerful supercomputers. In the future, scientists anticipate using quantum computing to emulate materials …
New quantum computing architecture could be used to connect large-scale devices | MIT News Read MoreIn a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysical Letters, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used various computer models to examine 69 confirmed binary …
What Does it Take to Make Black Holes Collide? Read MoreMatthew Goodbred ’23 has co-authored a paper that proposes a new theory explaining how magnetic energy can be very quickly released with explosive energy into charged particles in extreme environments …
Decoding mega magnetic explosions outside the solar system Read MoreThe history of science is full of debates between opposing factions. Even today, astronomers debate big ideas — such as different models describing the motion of stars and galaxies, ranging …
The case for dark matter has strengthened Read MorePlasmoid behavior of pure hydrogen and hydrogen mixed with 5% neon. In this experiment, a new Thomson Scattering (TS) diagnostic system operating at (an unprecedented rate of) 20 kHz was …
Cooling 100 million degree plasma with a hydrogen-neon mixture ice pellet Read MorePhysicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have discovered a completely new type of quantum entanglement, the spooky phenomenon that binds particles across any distance. In particle collider experiments, the new …
Physicists discover a completely new type of quantum entanglement Read MoreResearch from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that organelles in the eukaryotic cell grow in random bursts from a limiting pool of building blocks. Credit: Shutterstock Eukaryotic cells—the ones …
Physicists find that organelles grow in random bursts Read MoreResearchers at The University of Tokyo simulate the phase separation of self-spinning particles, and show that the process differs from other unmixing processes, which may shed light on the organization …
Demixing behavior of disks rotating in opposite directions can be explained by turbulent effects Read More