More Computational Power with Fewer Quantum Particles Thanks to Quantum Digits
Binary zeros and ones have been associated with computers for many years. A team at the University of Innsbruck in Austria has now developed a…
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Devices That Harness the Fusion Power of the Sun and Stars Could Be Improved With Smaller, Stronger Magnets
In order to design and build machines that could help the world harness the power of the sun to create electricity without producing greenhouse gases…
Particle Made Of Four Neutrons Finally Observed After Long-Sought Quest
The presence of an unusual kind of substance composed of four neutrinos was originally suggested to physicists twenty years ago. They now seem to have…
Citizen Scientists See an Auroral Arc Evolve Into the Mysterious STEVE
A narrow band of dancing lights ranging in color from white to mauve that bends across the sky marks the unexplained Strong Thermal Emission Velocity…
Benford’s Law Is A Mathematical Mystery, But We Use It All the Time
We want you to come up with a set of data. For preference, a huge one. It need not be random; for instance, it may…
Pew Peeeeeeeeeeeeeew Physicists Create a Continuous Laser Made Of Fifth State of Matter
Lasers function by enabling the emission of electromagnetic radiation with a certain wavelength, which results in the production of coherent light waves. The underlying reality…
The idea of a Mysterious Fourth Neutrino Supported By New Experiments
New research has validated an abnormality previously observed in tests, adding to the evidence that something is amiss with the Standard Model of particle physics.…
The Most Important Number It’s 137. This Is Why
Three is the magic number, as mathematician De La Soul famously noted. But, according to physicist Richard Feynman, the value is incorrect by a factor…
Current Models Underestimate Tsunami Risks
USC researchers discovered a link between tsunami severity and the width of the outer wedge (the area between the continental shelf and deep trenches where…
Supercomputers help Solve the Hawaiian-Emperor Undersea Mystery
To quantify the amount of Pacific Plate motion change associated with the Hawaiian — Emperor Bend, kinematic plate reconstructions and high-resolution global dynamic models were…
Quantum Gases Put All Sounds on Repeat
For the first time, a quantum gas has been discovered that can concurrently transmit sound waves at two distinct speeds. Any event that creates sound…
Researchers Develop a “Quantum Flute” That Can Coordinate the Movement of Light Particles
Scientists at the University of Chicago have created a “quantum flute” that, like the Pied Piper, can force light particles to interact in ways that…
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