What is really quantum computing?
To understand quantum computing, we spoke to Erik Lucero, PhD, research scientist and site lead for Google Santa Barbara, the company’s Quantum AI campus.
Lucero...
Astronomers find a break in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms
The newly discovered feature offers insight into the large-scale structure of our galaxy, which is difficult to study from Earth’s position inside it.
Scientists have...
Physicists create matter and antimatter by colliding just photons
In 1905 Albert Einstein wrote four groundbreaking papers on quantum theory and relativity.
It became known as Einstein’s annus mirabilis or wonderous year.
One was on...
Why boiling droplets could race across hot oily surfaces
When you’re frying something in a skillet and some droplets of water fall into the pan, you may have noticed those droplets skittering around...
Scientists catch a cosmic boomerang in action for the first time
For the first time, astronomers have observed a cosmic boomerang effect — streams of heavy, molecular gas that are stripped away from a distant...
Scientists find new way to develop human-integrated electronics
Polymer semiconductors — materials that have been made soft and stretchy but still able to conduct electricity — hold promise for future electronics that...
Scientists detect five supernovae that never been seen before
Stars are exploding in dusty galaxies. We just can't always see them.
Exploding stars generate dramatic light shows. Infrared telescopes like Spitzer can see through...
Why beer mats do not fly in a straight line
Beer mats protect tables from unsightly condensation rings.
However, they are sometimes also misused as projectiles.
Usually with little success: after just a short time, the...
This special graphene may be a rare, magnet-proof superconductor, shows study
MIT physicists have observed signs of a rare type of superconductivity in a material called “magic-angle” twisted trilayer graphene.
In a study appearing in Nature,...
Scientists create world’s thinnest magnet
A one-atom thin 2D magnet could advance new applications in computing and electronics.
The development of an ultrathin magnet that operates at room temperature could...