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The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers,...
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Black Holes + Wormholes = Quantum Answers
If physicists had a holy grail it would go by the name of Quantum Gravity. For 60 years researchers...
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What We Can Learn From the Quantum Calculations of Birds and Bacteria
As an undergraduate at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, K. Birgitta Whaley struggled to choose between chemistry and physics....
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Big Bang Light Reveals Minimum Lifetime of Photons
The notion of the speed of light as the cosmic speed limit is based on the assumption that particles...
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Signs of a Stranger, Deeper Side to Nature’s Building Blocks
According to modern quantum theory, energy fields permeate the universe, and flurries of energy in these fields, called “particles”...
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Mysterious Subatomic Particle May Represent Exotic New Form of Matter
In the course of exploring the properties of a strange subatomic particle, physicists may have stumbled upon something even...
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Physicist Wants to Put Einstein’s Equation to the Test
Does E always equal mc²? University of Arizona physicist Andrei Lebed suspects not – and plans to try and...
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Atom Smasher Hiatus Sets Stage for More Discovery
The Large Hadron Collider will operate for two more months then shut down through 2014, allowing engineers to lay...
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Quantum Gas Temperature Drops Below Absolute Zero
Physicists have created a quantum gas capable of reaching temperatures below absolute zero and paving the way for future...
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Earthworms Roped Into Making Quantum Dots
Ordinary earthworms are proving to be a sophisticated chemistry lab: they can put together substances with unusual light-emitting properties....