Saturday, 27 December 2025

Quantum Darwinism: Can evolutionary theory explain objective reality?

Added: 25.08.2021 17:00 | 229 views | 0 comments

Quantum phenomena “wash out” as particles interact with the environment, but classical properties survive. Are they selected in a process analogous to evolution by natural selection?

Source: www.newscientist.com

Do we distil reality from the quantum fog or does it exist without us?

Added: 25.08.2021 16:00 | 228 views | 0 comments

Quantum objects exist as clouds of possibilities, only manifesting as something definite when we look at them. The implication is that we make reality – but objectivity may yet be rescued

Source: www.newscientist.com

This is what makes the quantum world so strange and confusing

Added: 25.08.2021 14:30 | 245 views | 0 comments

Particles in many places at once, spooky influences and cats that are dead and alive at the same time – these are the phenomena that earned quantum theory its reputation for weirdness

Source: www.newscientist.com

Investigation of Nazi uranium could help stop modern nuclear smuggling

Added: 24.08.2021 11:00 | 250 views | 0 comments

Cubes of uranium salvaged from Nazi Germany's atomic bomb programme during the second world war are being analysed to confirm their origin, and the method could help law enforcement investigate illegal trafficking of nuclear material

Tags: Cuba , Law enforcement

Source: www.newscientist.com

Huge lasers make conditions at the cusp of ignition for nuclear fusion

Added: 17.08.2021 19:42 | 247 views | 0 comments

The immense lasers at the US National Ignition Facility have created the highest-pressure conditions ever made in a laboratory, bringing us a step closer to clean nuclear power

Source: www.newscientist.com

Using microwave beams could let quantum computers be small but mighty

Added: 13.08.2021 19:00 | 246 views | 0 comments

A decades-old theory to simplify silicon quantum processors has been shown to work, potentially paving the way for vastly more powerful quantum devices

Tags: Beer

Source: www.newscientist.com

States of matter: The unthinkable forms beyond solid, liquid and gas

Added: 11.08.2021 19:00 | 237 views | 0 comments

From time crystals to supersolids, we keep discovering extraordinary new kinds of matter – now the true challenge is being able to predict what we'll find next

Source: www.newscientist.com

Google researchers made a time crystal inside a quantum computer

Added: 03.08.2021 20:23 | 242 views | 0 comments

A time crystal is a unique phase of matter that flips between two configurations with no energy input necessary – first proposed in 2012, this type of matter has now been created inside a quantum computer built by Google

Tags: Beer , Fire , Google

Source: www.newscientist.com

How is gold made? The mysterious cosmic origins of heavy elements

Added: 21.07.2021 19:00 | 240 views | 0 comments

We have long struggled to figure out where heavy elements like gold come from. Now we have seen them being forged in neutron star collisions - and fresh clues suggest a role for the universe's first stars

Tags: Fire , Gold , Neutrons

Source: www.newscientist.com

Strange 3D-printed shapes test 150-year-old mathematical theory

Added: 16.07.2021 11:00 | 250 views | 0 comments

In 1871, the mathematician Lord Kelvin invented a shape called an isotropic helicoid that physicists predicted would behave strangely in a fluid – now it has been tested for the first time

Tags: Beer , Fire , Lorde

Source: www.newscientist.com

New kind of ice is so bendy it can curl and uncurl without breaking

Added: 08.07.2021 20:00 | 240 views | 0 comments

A single ice crystal formed into a thin strand can bend almost into a circle and then snap back into its original shape, making it the most elastic form of water ice ever made

Source: www.newscientist.com

Can a new collider reveal the last secrets of the Higgs boson?

Added: 30.06.2021 19:00 | 238 views | 0 comments

The most famous subatomic particle has revealed nothing we didn’t expect – so far. Now physicists want to build a “Higgs factory” to better interrogate it for signs of new physics

Source: www.newscientist.com

NASA's most accurate atomic clock will be tested on a mission to Venus

Added: 30.06.2021 17:00 | 241 views | 0 comments

A toaster-sized atomic clock in orbit around Earth is far more accurate than existing space clocks. It will be tested on a mission to Venus to see if it will aid autonomous spacecraft navigation on deep-space missions

Source: www.newscientist.com

Steel foil coated with nanowires does backflips out of water

Added: 29.06.2021 18:00 | 230 views | 0 comments

Extremely thin and water-repellent steel wafers not only float when submerged, they harvest power from surface tension and leap out of water

Source: www.newscientist.com

Why the big bang may not have been the beginning of the universe

Added: 23.06.2021 19:00 | 233 views | 0 comments

We once thought the big bang was a single moment, but physicists are now settling on a different version of events, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Tags: Beer

Source: www.newscientist.com

The hunt for a primordial force that would revolutionise cosmology

Added: 23.06.2021 19:00 | 231 views | 0 comments

Finding magnetic fields dating back to the big bang would transform our understanding of how the universe evolved. Now astronomers think they're on brink of such a breakthrough

Source: www.newscientist.com

LIGO mirrors cooled to near absolute zero could probe quantum gravity

Added: 17.06.2021 20:00 | 231 views | 0 comments

A set of mirrors used to detect gravitational waves is the largest system ever to be brought close to a frigid quantum state at a temperature of just 77 nanokelvin

Tags: Gravitational waves , Temperatures

Source: www.newscientist.com

World's most powerful magnet being shipped to ITER fusion reactor

Added: 15.06.2021 17:30 | 469 views | 0 comments

The world’s most powerful magnet, 280,000 times stronger than Earth's own magnetic field, is being shipped to France for installation in the core of the ITER fusion reactor

Tags: France

Source: www.newscientist.com

Merging galaxies throw shade on alternative dark matter theory

Added: 11.06.2021 19:58 | 235 views | 0 comments

The rate of galaxies merging 2 billion years after the big bang is 5 to 10 times more than predicted by theories of modified Newtonian dynamics, and line with dark matter theories

Source: www.newscientist.com

When time runs backwards: What thermodynamics can tell us about life

Added: 09.06.2021 19:00 | 221 views | 0 comments

The second law of thermodynamics, which gives us an arrow of time, is routinely violated at the smallest scales - an insight that is already yielding fresh clues to some of biology's great mysteries

Source: www.newscientist.com

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