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By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 15, 2026
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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.
By Lab Report · Sep 20, 2026
Classical nanostring traces the quantum geometry of the Bloch sphere
By The Long View · Sep 14, 2026
Subway worker's proof solves centuries-old prime number mystery
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Sep 13, 2026
Researchers observe exotic ice that stays solid at temperatures hot enough to melt iron
By Lab Report · Sep 10, 2026
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment beneath South Dakota found one particle interaction in 220 live days that researchers have struggled to explain…
By Lab Report · 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…
By The Long View · Sep 6, 2026
On 16 January 1913, an unknown accounts clerk at the Madras Port Trust mailed Cambridge mathematician G.H
By The Long View · 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…
By Science Blog Editorial Team · 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
By The Long View · 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
By Science Blog Editorial Team · Aug 19, 2026
A fully loaded jumbo jet can glide at essentially the same angle as an empty one after losing all its engines
By The Long View · Aug 18, 2026