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  • Scientists Use Cryptography To Unlock Secrets of Quantum Advantage

    Scientists Use Cryptography To Unlock Secrets of Quantum Advantage

    Researchers use cryptography to gain insights into the mechanisms behind quantum speed-ups. Quantum computing is widely regarded by experts as the next major leap in computer technology. Unlike traditional computers, which process information in…

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  • Aluminium-20: The Self-Destructing Atom Scientists Never Saw Coming

    Aluminium-20: The Self-Destructing Atom Scientists Never Saw Coming

    Physicists have discovered a never-before-seen atomic nucleus — aluminium-20 — that quite literally falls apart in three distinct proton bursts. This rare and unstable isotope doesn’t just decay, it unravels through a dramatic sequence of…

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  • The Universe’s Most Elusive Particles Might Be Talking to Themselves

    The Universe’s Most Elusive Particles Might Be Talking to Themselves

    Collapsing stars might act as cosmic laboratories for discovering hidden neutrino interactions. Neutrinos are among the most puzzling particles in the universe. Nearly massless and incredibly elusive, they rarely interact with anything, yet they…

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  • Imaginary Time Delays Are For Real

    • Physics 18, s95

    The time delay experienced by a scattered light signal has an imaginary part that was considered unobservable, but researchers have isolated its effect in a frequency shift.

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  • Concrete that lasts centuries and captures carbon? AI just made it possible

    Concrete that lasts centuries and captures carbon? AI just made it possible

    Imagine the concrete in our homes and bridges not only withstanding the ravages of time and natural disasters like the intense heat of wildfires, but actively self-healing or capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

    Now, researchers at the…

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  • Hidden orders in spin–orbit-entangled correlated insulators

    Hidden orders in spin–orbit-entangled correlated insulators

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