AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatar2 days agoThe Best Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be AtomsQuanta Magazine - Philip BallIn the search for the most scalable hardware to use for quantum computers, qubits made of individual atoms are having a breakout moment. At the end of …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarDoubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-HuntingQuanta Magazine - Elise CuttsRecent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres. In 2020, scientists detected …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarSwirling Forces, Crushing Pressures Measured in the ProtonQuanta Magazine - Charlie WoodLong-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces and pressures inside a subatomic …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarWhat Is Quantum Teleportation?Quanta Magazine - Janna LevinTeleporting people through space is still science fiction. But quantum teleportation is dramatically different and entirely real. In this episode, …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarFresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology PredictsQuanta Magazine - Liz KruesiBy mapping the largest structures in the universe, cosmologists have found that a cosmic anomaly appears to be fading away. Clusters of hundreds or …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarWhat Is the Nature of Time?Quanta Magazine - Steven StrogatzTime is all around us: in the language we use, in the memories we revisit and in our predictions of the future. But what exactly is it? The physicist …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarA Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart.Quanta Magazine - Charlie WoodA series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would never, ever fall into disarray. But physicists are …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarInside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland EruptionQuanta Magazine - Robin George AndrewsThe Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new volcanic era. Innovative efforts to map and monitor the subterranean magma are saving lives. On November 10, …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarTo See Black Holes in Stunning Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a BatQuanta Magazine - Michael GreshkoThe astrophysicist Erin Kara measures time lags in black holes’ X-ray glows, which reveal the complexity of the objects’ closest surroundings. Unlike …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarRadio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic FieldsQuanta Magazine - Jonathan O'CallaghanA controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarWhy Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches OnQuanta Magazine - Janna LevinThe Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24 all-new episodes. What a joy — pun intended — to …
AvatarThomas LinAvatarAvatarThe Best Neighborhoods for Starting a Life in the GalaxyQuanta Magazine - Rebecca BoyleSome neighborhoods in the Milky Way may be better suited for making habitable planets than others. To harbor life, at least as we know it, a planet …