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Google on track for quantum computer breakthrough by end of 2017

Technology

Google on track for quantum computer breakthrough by end of 2017

The search giant is testing a 20-qubit processor, its most powerful quantum chip yet, and says it will be able to outperform ordinary computers by the end of the year

News

Walk really fast to stop a wobbly suitcase ruining your holiday

Physics

Walk really fast to stop a wobbly suitcase ruining your holiday

News

Two footballers

Physics

Footballers move around pitch like chaotic particles in a fluid

News

Astronomer looking through telescope

Space

Time to embrace our odd place in the cosmos, inside a huge void?

Comment

Micius satellite

Space

Chinese satellite beats distance record for quantum entanglement

News

Projecting power: A new dance work makes darkness visible

Humans

Projecting power: A new dance work makes darkness visible

Culture

dancers

Humans

8 Minutes: How to dance the speed of light

Culture

telescopes

Space

Spectrum wars: The battle for the airwaves

Features

two maps of heat maps of twin plants side by side

Space

Mistaken brown dwarf is actually two planets orbiting each other

News

Time, mass and custard provide the physics in <i>The Earthworks</i>

Physics

Time, mass and custard provide the physics in The Earthworks

Tom Morton-Smith’s one-act romance captures a turning point in particle physics, says Stewart Pringle

Culture

Physics

Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

News

Space

General relativity passes test at Milky Way's central black hole

News

Space

LIGO’s third detection hints at how black hole binaries are born

News

Physics

Inside the SPIDER facility, preparing for nuclear fusion tests

Regulars