Popular Science discusses what could be IBM’s quantum breakthrough – a quantum processor named “Kookaburra” that’s set to start computing in 2025:… Read the rest “Laugh, quantum computer, laugh… in IBM’s gum tree.”
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 actually come into contact with,… Read the rest “Quantum particles are affected by gravity fields they never touch.”
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 waves with negative… Read the rest “Pendants marketed as “Anti 5G” are actually radioactive.”
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 that changes between… Read the rest “Google researchers created a time crystal inside a quantum computer.”
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 of chaotic systems like, say, hurricanes… Read the rest “A quickly random bow tie, and why that’s important.”
SONG: “In the Sounding Deep”.
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SOURCE: Scientific American, April 2020, “Undersea Telescopes Scan the Sky from Below,” as used in the post “… Read the rest “SONG: In the Sounding Deep”
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 particles called… Read the rest “A particle called a “kaon” might just rewrite the rules of subatomic physics.”
Science News has more on the very tiny engine that could:
… Read the rest “Quantum engine gives more power than a standard engine, for the first time.”The device is a type of engine called a heat engine. Traditional heat engines turn heat into motion. For example, a car’s internal
“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 inside atoms – neutrons, protons, … Read the rest “Science Art: Atom Nucleon”
SONG: “Quantum Biology”.
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SOURCE: Scientific American, Vol. 27, Dec. 2018, “’Schrödinger’s Bacterium’ Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone”… Read the rest “SONG: Quantum Biology”
Scientific American reveals how some strange research is bringing the weirdness of the subatomic world – where things can be (more or less) in two places at once – into living… Read the rest “Weird life force: Quantum-entangled bacteria.”
Nature speculates about the ways quantum computing will change the way the internet works, with unbreakable privacy and more:
… Read the rest “A peek at the quantum internet: secrets and superpositions”The first stages promise virtually unbreakable privacy
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 the repeated structure is in … Read the rest “Two new kinds of time crystals.”
SONG: “In Circles” (penitential cover)
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SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for the November song (which … Read the rest “SONG: “In Circles” (a penitential Einstürzende Neubauten cover)”
SONG: “Nine Dangshen Flowers”.
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SOURCE:China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance,” Science, 15 Jun 2017, as used in the… Read the rest “SONG: Nine Dangshen Flowers”
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