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Super-cooling radioactive atoms could create a laser-like neutrino beam, potentially opening a new avenue for studying these elusive particles and even enabling novel forms of communication. Every ...

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Traditional computers rely on binary bits for computation, while quantum computers utilize quantum bits that have superposition properties. The research team chose atoms as carriers for quantum bits ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

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America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more ...

A decade in the making, this upgraded detector will explore the properties of the quark-gluon plasma that formed a millionth ...

A new experiment called QROCODILE, led by the University of Zurich and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has achieved record sensitivity in the hunt for light dark matter. Using superconducting ...

Katherine Bourzac is a science journalist based in San Francisco. Her coverage of microbiology, physics, chemistry and the environment has appeared in Nature, Scientific American and MIT ...

The following article is adapted from a press release issued by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO ...

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a ...