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Category: Physics
You Are Quantumly Entangled with the Stars—New Study Reveals Mind-Bending Truth About Reality
At first glance, the world appears beautifully local. A falling apple obeys gravity. Light ripples through space at a constant…
The Problem So Hard That Not Even Quantum Computers Can Solve It
It is easy to imagine quantum computers as near-magical machines—devices so powerful that they can solve problems beyond the reach…
Scientists Create a “Quantum Brain” Made of Light and Atoms
In a quiet lab at Stanford University, light and atoms dance together inside a pair of mirrors. The light bounces,…
Scientists Prove the Universe Isn’t a Simulation — and the Reason Will Blow Your Mind
For decades, the idea that we might be living inside a computer simulation has captured the imagination of philosophers, scientists,…
Scientists Discover “Impossible” Metal Behavior Inside an Insulator—And No One Knows Why
When Lu Li, a professor of physics at the University of Michigan, began his latest research project, he did not…
Physicists Discover Electrons That ‘Sing’ in Harmony—And Their Song Changes with Shape
In the quiet corridors of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, something…
New Study Claims Entanglement No Longer Proves Gravity Is Quantum — Did We Misread Feynman?
For more than a century, physics has been haunted by a stubborn fracture at its foundation. On one side stands…
Quantum Chip Beats the World’s Fastest Supercomputer by 13,000× — and Solves a Real Physics Problem
For years, quantum computing has lived in the realm of promise — a breathtaking theory waiting to prove its worth…
Physicists May Have Discovered an Entirely New State of Matter — And It Forms at the Coldest Temperatures in the Universe
There is a regime of nature in which motion stops matter from revealing what it is. Most of the time,…
Scientists Spin a “Quantum Paradox” — Supersolid Starts Dancing in Sync Under Rotation
Most states of matter obey a kind of loyalty: a solid holds shape, a fluid flows, and a superfluid flows…
Physicists Catch Photons “Choosing Sides” — Light Particles Seen Following the Crowd for the First Time
If photons could speak, they would not tell stories of heroism or independence. They would talk about consensus. Unlike the…
Scientists Crack the Nuclear Code Behind Gold’s Cosmic Birth for the First Time
You cannot wear gold unless a nucleus somewhere, some time, decayed. That fact alone should alter the way we look…
Physicists Say the Universe May Have Begun With Knots — and They Might Explain Why Anything Exists at All
In 1867, Lord Kelvin proposed a picture of atoms that now sounds almost mythic. He imagined that atoms were not…
Scientists Create Ultra-Thin Surface That Controls Light with Just 0.2 Volts—A Revolution in Optics Begins
Light has always fascinated humanity. From the glow of a candle to the speed of a laser beam, it has…
Dark Matter Isn’t What We Thought—It Could Behave Like a Gigantic Ocean of Quantum Waves
The universe we see—the stars, the planets, the glowing clouds of gas—represents only a tiny fraction of all that exists.…
Scientists May Have Just Found Proof That Dark Matter Is Destroying Itself at the Center of the Milky Way
For decades, astronomers have been haunted by an invisible presence—an unseen mass that holds galaxies together, bends light from distant…
This New Discovery Could Change How We Understand the Human Brain—and Artificial Intelligence
Every second of every day, information flows around us—in the digital networks that power our communication, in the neurons that…
This Classic Material Could Make Data Centers 10x More Efficient—and Change the Internet Forever
In the world of materials science, some stories read like tales of redemption. Barium titanate, a compound discovered in 1941,…
Scientists Connected a “Time Crystal” to the Real World — and It Could Change Quantum Computing Forever
Crystals have always fascinated the human imagination. Their geometric perfection, shimmering colors, and elegant order arise from the precise arrangement…
Physicists Shatter 200-Year-Old Law of Thermodynamics — Quantum Engines Could Break Efficiency Limits
For nearly two centuries, the Carnot principle has stood as one of the cornerstones of physics—a law so fundamental that…
Scientists Create Quantum Network That Could Replace the Internet as We Know It
Imagine a world where information travels not just faster, but unhackably. Where computers communicate across vast distances instantaneously, their messages…