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Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger’s famous cat, the symbol of quantum superposition and unpredictability, by anticipating its jumps...
Light can evolve in up to seven dimensions on new optical chips
A new design of optical chips enables light to experience multiple dimensions.
This could underpin versatile platforms for advanced communications and ultra-fast artificial intelligence technologies.
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Distant Milky Way-like galaxies reveal star formation history of the universe
Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy!
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Supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may have a friend
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Heat energy could leap through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness
In a surprising new study, University of California, Berkeley, researchers show that heat energy can travel through a complete vacuum thanks to invisible quantum...
New laser technique could capture quantum world in a trillionth of a second
For the first time, researchers have been able to record, frame-by-frame, how an electron interacts with certain atomic vibrations in a solid.
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How to shape a spiral galaxy
Our Milky Way galaxy has an elegant spiral shape with long arms filled with stars, but exactly how it took this form has long...
How Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus got its tiger stripes
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is of great interest to scientists due to its subsurface ocean, making it a prime target for those searching for...
Scientists create quantum states in everyday electronics
After decades of miniaturization, the electronic components we’ve relied on for computers and modern technologies are now starting to reach fundamental limits.
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