🇨🇳 China
China switches on powerful atom smasher to probe matter's deepest secrets
China has switched on a powerful new particle accelerator that can smash atoms apart to reveal their innermost
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🇯🇵 Japan
AI cracks the code behind water's strangest behavior
Water expands when it freezes, a quirk that makes it an outlier among liquids. Now scientists in Japan have us
🇦🇹 Austria
Tiny magnetic waves could lead to penny-sized quantum computers
A team of physicists in Austria has turned fleeting magnetic waves into long-lasting carriers of quantum infor
🇺🇸 United States
World's First Nuclear Clocks Tick Past Atomic Timekeepers
For decades, atomic clocks have been the gold standard for measuring time. Now two independent research teams
🇺🇸 United States
Scientists crack the mystery of how ice actually forms
For decades, the leading theories describing how ice crystals grow in supercooled water have been wildly inacc
🇨🇳 China
China builds world's first superfast quantum memory chip
A team of Chinese scientists has built the world's first superfast quantum memory chip, a device that stores q
🇺🇸 United States
Feynman's Restaurant Riddle Confirmed by 2,520 Diners
Physicist Richard Feynman solved a nagging restaurant problem with napkin math 50 years ago. Now a study with
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Feynman’s hidden formula for picking a holiday restaurant
The physicist Richard Feynman had a secret trick for never eating a bad meal on holiday. It was not a hunch or
🇨🇳 China
Chinese scientists simulate a possible end of the universe
A team of researchers in China used a quantum computer to simulate one possible way the universe could end. Th
🇦🇹 Austria
Tiny Metal Lump Exists in Two Places at Once in Quantum First
A tiny lump of metal just pulled off a trick that defies everyday logic: it existed in two places at the same
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Life may hinge on a cosmic sweet spot for liquid flow, study finds
The universe may be fine tuned not just for stars and galaxies, but for the simple act of liquid flowing insid
🇩🇪 Germany
40 year physics puzzle about how things grow finally solved
A 40 year old physics puzzle about how things grow has finally been cracked. Scientists in Germany have experi
🇮🇳 India
Graphene's Electrons Defy Physics as a Quantum Fluid
Electrons in graphene have been caught flowing like a nearly perfect liquid, directly violating a foundational
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Quantum Computer Predictions Finally Meet Real-World Tests
A quantum computer has successfully simulated the properties of a real material, and for the first time, physi
🇩🇪 Germany
Physics Solves the Sticky Bottle Problem
The Drip Stops Here: German Physicists Solve a Universal Kitchen Woe For anyone who has ever wrestled with a s
🇺🇸 United States
Gravity and Plasma Solve Crab Pulsar's Zebra Stripe Mystery
Cosmic Tug-of-War Solves 20-Year Space Mystery For two decades, a dead star 6,500 light-years away has been se
🇯🇵 Japan
Scientists Find New Form of Water That Exists Only Under Extreme Pressure
Tokyo Lab Squeezes Water Into a Form Found Only Deep Inside Earth Forget the ice in your freezer. Scientists i
