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Scientists put a tiny lump of metal in two places at once in record-breaking quantum experiment
Sodium nanoparticles of thousands of atoms were placed in quantum superposition, setting a new macroscopicity record of μ=15.5 — an order of magnitude beyond prior experiments.
Read full story →This sulfurous hell world might change the way we classify exoplanets
Exoplanet L 98-59 d features a sulfur-rich atmosphere and magma surface above 1,500°C, challenging existing classification systems and pointing to a new class of molten worlds.
Read full story →New quantum algorithm solves "impossible" materials problem in seconds
Aalto University researchers used tensor networks to simulate quasicrystals with over 268 million sites, a scale impossible for conventional supercomputers, enabling topological qubit design.
Read full story →NASA's Roman Space Telescope could reveal millions of invisible neutron stars
Gravitational microlensing could allow NASA's Roman telescope to detect dozens of isolated neutron stars, measuring their masses and illuminating extreme nuclear physics.
Read full story →Physicists May Be on the Verge of Discovering "New Physics" at CERN
LHC analysis of rare B meson decays reveals a 4-sigma tension with the Standard Model, hinting at undiscovered particles such as leptoquarks.
Read full story →This Magnetic Field Trick Creates Entirely New Forms of Matter
Cal Poly physicists showed that time-varying magnetic fields generate driven quantum phases with no static counterpart, published in Physical Review B.
Read full story →Scientists Just Discovered How the Universe Builds Monster Black Holes
Cardiff University analysis of 153 gravitational wave mergers found that the most massive black holes form through repeated hierarchical collisions in dense star clusters.
Read full story →Artificial intelligence brings us closer to realizing the promise of nuclear fusion
Machine learning models now predict and control tearing mode instabilities in tokamak plasmas, a key barrier to sustained fusion, per a new Physics of Plasmas study.
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