Researchers Capture Quantum Interference in One of Nature’s Rarest Atoms

Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom. A ...

Quantum Reality Gets Stranger: Physicists Put a Lump of Metal in Two Places at Once

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...
Science Daily

After 20 years, scientists finally explain the Crab Pulsar’s strange “zebra stripes”

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer ...
Astronomy on MSN

Could this telescope find life on alien worlds?

The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Light-wave vortices can move faster than light without breaking relativity, study finds

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have measured “dark points” inside light waves that appear to travel faster than light itself, confirming a theoretical prediction made half ...
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Integrated Photonic Collection for Trapped Ions

Researchers present a novel ion-trap chip integrating photonics for efficient fluorescence photon collection, enhancing ...
New Scientist

How a century-long argument over light’s true nature came to an end

Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over whether light is a wave ...
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Electron-atom scattering method reveals quantum states of wave packets

Physicists have proposed a way to extract the internal quantum states of electron wave packets by analyzing how those packets ...