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Physicists watch quantum vibration vanish in a discrete jump
A superconducting qubit followed a nanomechanical resonator from its one-phonon state to the ground state, revealing a discrete jump while also exposing the readout's own back-action.
Sep 20, 2026
Classical nanostring traces the quantum geometry of the Bloch sphere
Sep 14, 2026
Subway worker's proof solves centuries-old prime number mystery
Sep 13, 2026
Researchers observe exotic ice that stays solid at temperatures hot enough to melt iron
Sep 10, 2026
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment beneath South Dakota found one particle interaction in 220 live days that researchers have struggled to explain…
Sep 6, 2026
In 1925, 24-year-old graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that the Sun and other stars were composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and…
Sep 6, 2026
On 16 January 1913, an unknown accounts clerk at the Madras Port Trust mailed Cambridge mathematician G.H
Sep 6, 2026
Freezing the carbon disulfide inside the nominally 1.37 micrometre core of an optical fibre, by dipping 27.5 centimetres of it in liquid…
Sep 5, 2026
Start with one cent on day one and double it every day, and by day 30 you would have $5,368,709.12
Aug 22, 2026
Two and a half kilometres beneath the Antarctic ice, a cubic kilometre of frozen water has been wired with 5,160 light sensors, turning the…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 19, 2026
The bubbles in a settling pint of Guinness really do travel downwards, and it is not a trick of the eye
Aug 19, 2026
A fully loaded jumbo jet can glide at essentially the same angle as an empty one after losing all its engines
Aug 18, 2026