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A shining lightbulb with a cord that’s not plugged in.
quantum physics

Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing

By Charlie Wood
February 22, 2023
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The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works.

Illustration in which a bright red line results from many wavelike ripples overlapping.
explainers

How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities

By Charlie Wood
February 6, 2023
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Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.

Video/image of a metronome whose arm is simultaneously ticking rightward and leftward.
quantum physics

How Quantum Physicists ‘Flipped Time’ (and How They Didn’t)

By Charlie Wood
January 27, 2023
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Two teams have made photons act as if time were simultaneously flowing in two directions. The experiments demonstrate a way to potentially boost the performance of quantum devices.

Nikta Fakhri looks at a test tube.
Q&A

Starfish Whisperer Develops a Physical Language of Life

By Charlie Wood
January 11, 2023
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Nikta Fakhri is adapting and extending concepts from physics to describe how tiny biological components give rise to living organisms.

A hand holds a spherical, starry universe that resembles almost all the balls in a nearby gumball machine. Two balls in the machine are a different color.
cosmology

Why This Universe? A New Calculation Suggests Our Cosmos Is Typical.

By Charlie Wood
November 17, 2022
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Two physicists have calculated that the universe has a higher entropy — and is therefore more likely — than alternative possible universes.

Multimedia

Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable

By Charlie Wood +1 authors
Merrill Sherman
October 19, 2022
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The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed.

three side-by-side photos of men (one a blond man in a black turtleneck, one a man with white hair and a beard, and one with brown hair and a graying mustache. overlaid on the images are magenta circles connected by dotted lines, suggesting the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.
Nobel Prize

Pioneering Quantum Physicists Win Nobel Prize in Physics

By Charlie Wood
October 4, 2022
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Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments with entangled particles.

Video in which colorful pieces form in the center of a circule and grow as they move out to the periphery.
quantum gravity

Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe

By Charlie Wood
September 26, 2022
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The past and the future are tightly linked in conventional quantum mechanics. Perhaps too tightly. A tweak to the theory could let quantum possibilities increase as space expands.

A video in which a metallic cube floats above a dark disk as liquid nitrogen evaporates around them
condensed matter physics

High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last

By Charlie Wood
September 21, 2022
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A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory.


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