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To See Black Holes in Detail, She Uses ‘Echoes’ Like a Bat | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionUnlike many astronomers, Erin Kara didn’t grow up star-struck. “I don’t have that story of being that little kid staring up at the stars...

News From Infleqtion: Inertial Sensors, Atomic Clocks, RF Receivers… oh, and 1,600 Qubits: by Brian Siegelwax – Inside Quantum Technology

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 09 Feb 2024 On February 8, 2024, Infleqtion held its inaugural webinar titled “Infleqtion’s...

What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics? | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionWe tend to think of mathematics as purely logical, but the teaching of math, its values, its usefulness and its workings are packed with...

Bright galaxies put dark matter to the test

Jan 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) For the past year and a half, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered astonishing images of distant galaxies formed...

Scientists make breakthrough in quantum materials research

Jan 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Los Alamos National Laboratory, publishing in Nature Communications ("Controllable strain-driven topological phase...

Ganja Theories – What if This Isn’t Humanity’s First Tango with Artificial Intelligence?

Ah, Ganja Theories - thought-provoking, weed-induced musings that take us on a wild ride through the realms of the improbable and the impossible. It's...

The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal | Quanta Magazine

IntroductionIn the mid-1980s, like Walkman cassette players and tie-dyed shirts, the buglike silhouette of the Mandelbrot set was everywhere. Students plastered it to dorm room...

Photonics West lights up San Francisco – Physics World

Thousands of delegates from around the globe will converge on San Francisco’s Moscone Center to discuss and explore the latest innovations in lasers, optics...

Arno Penzias: Nobel laureate who co-discovered ‘echo of Big Bang’ dies aged 90 – Physics World

The cosmologist Arno Penzias, who discovered the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with Robert Wilson, died on 22 January at the age of 90. He...

Light fever: bringing disco to astronomy – Physics World

As well as bringing sparkle to the dance floor, could disco balls become a new educational tool in astronomy? Laura Hiscott investigates <a href="https://zephyrnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/light-fever-bringing-disco-to-astronomy-physics-world-1.jpg" data-fancybox...

Metalens images dim nebula, galaxies shaped like pool noodles and surfboards – Physics World

To describe Federico Capasso at Harvard University as a prolific researcher is an understatement and I have been following his work in photonics for...

Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star?

Jan 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, have used the MeerKAT...

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