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Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

Physics

Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger's cat

This physics-inspired circus performance enthralled attendees of the American Physical Society’s March Meeting, but a casual observer may have missed some of the scientific concepts that performers enacted

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Jonathan oppenheim

Physics

The physicist betting that space-time isn't quantum after all

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NGC 1858 is an open star cluster in the northwest region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way that has an abundance of star-forming regions

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How are the atoms that form us forged across the universe?

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A diamond anvil

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'Red matter' superconductor could transform electronics – if it works

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Antineutrinos collide with protons inside the detector which creates positrons that move through water followed by a blue glow.

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Antimatter neutrinos detected from a nuclear reactor 240 km away

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A tightly arranged collection of copper and silver-colored metallic tubes and cylinders comprise the inside of a quantum computer

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Quantum computers that use 'cat qubits' may make fewer errors

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The Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, has a hidden corridor that has now been mapped

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Hidden corridor in Egypt’s Great Pyramid mapped with cosmic rays

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Why uncertainty is part of science - especially quantum mechanics

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This new version of quantum theory is even stranger than the original

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This new version of quantum theory is even stranger than the original

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Atomic clock components sit in a laboratory setting, a blue light laser shines through a metal chamber, partially obscured by a pair of lenses

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Most accurate molecular clock yet uses extremely cold strontium

A clock that ticks using vibrations of strontium molecules could be used to test Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity or to search for forces that have yet to be described

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Google’s quantum computer simulation of a wormhole may not have worked

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From qubits to quantum superposition: How quantum computers work

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The CERN particle accelerator that will breathe new life into physics

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Physics

Quantum computers could run programs that should be too big for them

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