The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...
New Scientist

Electrons inside graphene have been pushed to supersonic speeds

Making electrons flow like a liquid is difficult, but inside graphene researchers forced them to move so fast that they ...

Floating electrons on a sea of helium

So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...

Individual electrons trapped and controlled above 1 K, easing cooling limits for quantum computing

Researchers from EeroQ, the quantum computing company pioneering electron-on-helium technology, have published a paper, ...
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Nobel prize for physics goes to trio behind quantum computing chips

The 2025 Nobel prize in physics has gone to John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis, whose work has led to the ...

With new analysis, Apollo samples brought to Earth in 1972 reveal exotic sulfur hidden in moon's mantle

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...
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How 3 scientists who won physics Nobel brought ‘quantum physics from subatomic world onto chip’

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for ...