麻豆传媒

Physics

Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated forever

A drop of very cold liquid helium can be made to float for an indefinitely long time using strong magnets and quantum effects

Milky Way. Night sky and silhouette of a standing man

Space

Questions I dread: How did the universe begin, and what is space-time?

Supermassive black hole. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.; Shutterstock ID 1756053335; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Space

Lab imitations of the unobservable cosmos can be genuinely insightful

Life

Blobs of worms untangle in milliseconds with a corkscrew wiggle

Physics

Why we must inspire people with the magic of condensed matter physics

Calcium ions are released through the triangular funnel and caught by electric potentials on top of the metallic chip

Physics

2D crystal of ultracold charged atoms is biggest ever created

Physics

Physics confirms the best way to make a playground swing go higher

Qunnect's entanglement source

Technology

An unhackable quantum internet is being built in New York City

Caption Illustration of the double-slit experiment, showing a plane wave (top left) passing through a screen with two gaps. The gaps act as new wave sources and the wavefronts bend to create two sets of circular waves radiating outwards. These two new waves create an interference pattern as they interact. At the point where a wave peak from one hits a wave peak from another, or a trough hits a trough, they reinforce each other; their magnitudes are summed. This is known as constructive interference. Where a trough hits a peak, they cancel each other out. This is known as destructive interference.

Physics

Light interacts with its past self in twist on double-slit experiment

Physics

Scientists can calculate the shape colliding bubbles will form

An experiment with soap bubbles shows how they assume different shapes when two of them touch, and at which size they will merge into one

Physics

Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps review: Embodying Schrodinger’s cat

Physics

Hidden corridor in Egypt鈥檚 Great Pyramid mapped with cosmic rays

Physics

Strange water wave can bounce a droplet thousands of times

Physics

The hunt for dark matter: The universe’s mysterious gravitational glue