Tag Archives: Time

IN THE Antarctic, things happen at a glacial pace. Just ask Peter Gorham. For a month at a time, he and his colleagues would watch a giant balloon carrying a collection of antennas float high above the ice, scanning over a million square kilometres of the frozen landscape for evidence …

Post-quantum gravity could explain the rotation speed of galaxies, which is normally seen as evidence for dark matter NASA, ESA, CSA A potential new theory of gravity that ruffles the fabric of the universe, allowing space and time to vary erratically, could solve some of the largest mysteries in physics …

Could quantum computers be made more stable using time crystals? John D/Getty Images Time crystals can be used to stabilise fragile states within quantum computers, which could one day give them an edge over traditional computers. When Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek first theorised that time crystals exist in 2012, the …

From Back to the Future to Tenet and Interstellar, cinema has portrayed time travel in many imaginative ways.  Kristie Miller is the joint director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Time at the University of Sydney, and her research focuses on the nature of time and our relationship with it. For …

Around 200 molecules were turned into a quantum state of matter Will Lab, Columbia University A quantum state of matter has been made for the first time using “dipolar” molecules – molecules that have a positively charged end and a negatively charged end. It could help enhance our understanding of …

Oncologists generally thought GPT-4 would make them more efficient at responding to queries, but said the model also gives worrying recommendations Maskot/Getty Images AI chatbots that answer medical queries could save doctors’ time, but also run the risk of making recommendations that harm the people seeking advice. Shan Chen at …

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach The 2023 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for their work on generating ultra-short pulses of light to study how electrons move through matter. Anne L’Huillier at Lund University in …

Artistic illustration of an Alice ring, which has been observed for the first time Heikka Valja/Aalto University Physicists have peered through the proverbial looking glass, and the atoms on the other side belong to a world of opposites. For the first time, researchers have made an exotic quantum object called …

Exactly how clouds produce rain is a mystery Jack Dykinga/naturepl.com/Alamy Moments after supercooled water freezes, a strange kind of spring-like ice is born. The process involved, which researchers have only now seen for the first time, could help explain how clouds, which contain millions of supercooled water droplets, make rain …

WHEN scientists reported they had created a space-time wormhole in November last year, the world’s media were all over the story, even though they struggled to make sense of it. A journalist for the website UNILAD put it neatly when they wrote: “So, you might have to bear with us …