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Category: Physics
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Now Arriving, a New Theory of In-Flight Turbulence
Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well.
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Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers
Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.
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I Still Don’t Know Why I Said Yes
In the language of physics, we were a quantum entanglement event.
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Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)
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For Ytasha Womack, the Afrofuture is Now
The writer and filmmaker discusses the blend of theoretical cosmology and Black culture in Chicago’s newest planetarium show.
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Lewis Branscomb, Champion of Science Across Fields, Dies at 96
He led scientific advances at I.B.M. and within the federal government during a career that spanned the space race and the dawn of the internet.
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Get Ready to See More of the Northern Lights
Over the past few months, viewings of the lights have increased in areas farther south than usual. That’s going to continue into 2025.