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Nobel Prize Honors Inventors of ‘Quantum Dot’ Nanoparticles

October 4, 2023

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers who harnessed the quantum behaviors of semiconductor nanocrystals.

Physicists Who Explored Tiny Glimpses of Time Win Nobel Prize

October 3, 2023

The development of attosecond pulses of light allowed researchers to explore the frame-by-frame movement of electrons.

In the Milky Way’s Stars, a History of Violence

September 28, 2023

Our galaxy's stars keep a record of its past. By reading those stories, astronomers are learning more about how the Milky Way came to be — and about the galaxy we live in today.

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The Experimental Cosmologist Hunting for the First Sunrise

September 20, 2023

To catch even a whiff of the universe’s earliest epochs — an age of darkness, and one of new light — Cynthia Chiang builds her own equipment. Then she deploys it at the ends of the Earth.

Machine Learning Aids Classical Modeling of Quantum Systems

September 14, 2023

By using “classical shadows,” ordinary computers can beat quantum computers at the tricky task of understanding quantum behaviors.

Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition

September 11, 2023

Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of quantum information and control it.

How Scientists Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Solar Cycle Prediction

September 7, 2023

Scientists have struggled to accurately forecast the strength of the sun’s 11-year cycle — even after centuries of solar observations.

In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness

August 29, 2023

Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure dark matter that might solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.

New Codes Could Make Quantum Computing 10 Times More Efficient

August 25, 2023

Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting codes suggests that the task might be slightly more feasible than many feared.

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