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Supermassive black holes share a surprising link with subatomic gluon 'color glass walls'

Scientists have discovered a connection between supermassive black holes and densely packed gluon 'walls' called color glass condensates.

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Ground-Breaking Physics Experiment Shows Light Can Cross Through Gaps in Time

Scientists made light cross through gaps not in space, but time. The findings, published Monday in the journal Nature Physics, could lead to new, unusual ways to control light.

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'Ant-Man' star Paul Rudd quizzes NASA expert on quantum science

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania star Paul Rudd can’t get enough of the quantum realm. Rudd took to YouTube to ask a NASA quantum physicist some big questions.

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We Could (Maybe) Detect the Multiverse — But Only If One Theory is Correct

The idea of a multiverse consisting of “parallel universes” is a popular science fiction trope, recently explored in the Oscar-winning movie Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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Scientists closer to using 'quantum light' in medicine

Physicists have built a device that allows them to measure the movement of single photons and could lead to advances in medical imaging and quantum computing.

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A Second Big Bang May Have Flooded the Universe With Dark Matter

Scientists are looking into the Dark Big Bang, a second event that sent dark matter particles out into the universe., and we may be able to find evidence of it.

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Audrey Wood net worth | Evening Standard Tech Rich List

As one of the co-founders of one of British engineering’s biggest post-War success stories, Audrey Wood was a pioneer in spinning out a commercial company from a famous university. Oxford Instruments began in 1959 and produced its first superconductor magnet in 1961. Its journey from the college lab to the cutting edge…

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‘Quantumania’ is taking over. Here’s where we stand in the real ‘quantum realm’

A Quantumania-inspired tour of the technologies and possibilities of quantum science.

Fortune

Leonardo Da Vinci’s understanding of gravity was ‘centuries ahead of his time’, study says

Italian polymath modeled gravitational constant to around 97 per cent accuracy, scientists say

The Independent UK

Dark Energy Bubbles Could Explain Why The Universe Is Expanding So Fast

Physicists propose that if dark energy formed bubbles in the dark plasma of the early universe, it could solve one of the biggest mysteries in modern physics.

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Physicists have used entanglement to 'stretch' the uncertainty principle, improving quantum measurements

Almost a century ago, German physicist Werner Heisenberg realised the laws of quantum mechanics placed some fundamental limits on how accurately we can measure certain properties of microscopic objects.

The Conversation

In a wild first, physicists used lasers to control lightning on a mountaintop

Scientists successfully guided lightning with lasers, which could improve storm safety and offer new physics insights.

Inverse

Greg Cote: The Curse of the Miami Dolphins: Why it’s real — and all the ways it is back in full force

Albert Einstein, the acclaimed theoretical physicist, is credited with saying the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

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2022 in the search for aliens

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial life was a fringe pursuit; now, experts are taking it seriously

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Massive new physics project could finally find dark matter

Dark matter is an archetype of a missing phenomenon, but there are plenty of potential explanations for it.

The Conversation

Did physicists make a wormhole in the lab? Not quite, but a new experiment hints at the future of quantum simulations

Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of physics.

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Scientists simulate ‘baby’ wormhole without rupturing space and time

Theoretical achievement hailed, though sending people through a physical wormhole remains in the realms of science fiction

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This tiny 2D wormhole could finally solve the biggest problem in physics

The experiment may eventually help tie together two contentious sides of physics, general relativity and quantum mechanics.

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Scientist awarded £2.5 million to advance quantum communications

Scottish professor is one of only four academics in the UK to be recognised through the Royal Academy programme

The Independent UK

Research paves way for communications that cannot be hacked, scientists say

With cyber-attacks becoming more prevelent, quantum entanglement will allow future communications networks to be unhackable, scientits have said.

Inverse

Physicists debunk 4 myths about quantum theory — including one that stumped Einstein

When the 2022 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for research shedding light on quantum mechanics, it sparked excitement and discussion.

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Is reality a simulation? A physicist explains how the truth may be revealed

The nature of our reality is one of the greatest mysteries out there. There is some evidence suggesting that our physical reality could be a simulated virtual reality.

The New Daily

What is a ‘leap second’ and why are we saying goodbye to them?

It’s time to work out exactly what to do with a problem that has become increasingly urgent, and severe, with the rise of the digital world.

Inverse

107 years on, we are still testing Einstein’s theory of gravity — the results are getting weird

Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy, has now tested Einstein’s theory on the largest of scales. We believe our approach may one day help resolve some of the biggest mysteries in cosmology, and the results hint that the theory of general relativity may need to be tweaked on this…

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Gravity: The final frontier

In a technological triumph for humankind, astronomers can now "hear" the echoes of unfathomably distant black holes

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