Laugh, quantum computer, laugh… in IBM’s gum tree.
Popular Science discusses what could be IBM’s quantum breakthrough – a quantum processor named “Kookaburra” that’s set to start computing in 2025: Last year, IBM […]
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Quantum particles are affected by gravity fields they never touch.
Science News has more mysteries from the subatomic realm, with the discovery that electrons and other quantum particles can be moved by forces they never […]
Pendants marketed as “Anti 5G” are actually radioactive.
Ars Technica takes us to the technological front of the culture war with a truly absurd story about “quantum pendants” that supposedly neutralize 5G radio […]
Google researchers created a time crystal inside a quantum computer.
Quanta Magazine reports on the creation – using a cutting-edge quantum computer – of something very close to a perpetual-motion machine, a kind of matter […]
A quickly random bow tie, and why that’s important.
Nature reports on a new milestone in the quest for true randomness – a quality that’s vitally useful in things like data security and models […]
SONG: In the Sounding Deep
SONG: “In the Sounding Deep” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, April 2020, “Undersea Telescopes Scan the Sky from Below,” as used in the […]
A particle called a “kaon” might just rewrite the rules of subatomic physics.
Sounds almost too Hollywood to be true, but Science News is covering some unexpected findings from a Japanese particle accelerator, where researchers say chaotic little […]
Quantum engine gives more power than a standard engine, for the first time.
Science News has more on the very tiny engine that could: The device is a type of engine called a heat engine. Traditional heat engines […]
Science Art: Atom Nucleon
“Atom” used to be the indivisible unit of matter, the thing smaller than which it was impossible to go. Now we know there are things […]
SONG: Quantum Biology
SONG: “Quantum Biology” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Scientific American, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Schrödinger’s Bacterium’ Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”, as used in […]
Weird life force: Quantum-entangled bacteria.
Scientific American reveals how some strange research is bringing the weirdness of the subatomic world – where things can be (more or less) in two […]
A peek at the quantum internet: secrets and superpositions
Nature speculates about the ways quantum computing will change the way the internet works, with unbreakable privacy and more: The first stages promise virtually unbreakable […]
Two new kinds of time crystals.
Science News looks at a strange structure of matter (one we’ve discussed on here in the past) that regularly repeats itself like a crystal… but […]
SONG: “In Circles” (a penitential Einstürzende Neubauten cover)
SONG: “In Circles” (penitential cover) [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the November song […]
SONG: Nine Dangshen Flowers
SONG: “Nine Dangshen Flowers” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017, as used in the […]