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Imagine a particle so ghostly that over 100 trillion of them could pass through you every single second without you noticing anything at all. Spooky, right? Well, believe it or not, these particles, called “neutrinos,” not only exist, but they are so abundant that they are the second most common particle in the universe (after photons, the particles that make …

The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports the observations of two record-breaking events in gravitational wave observations. They were detected in October and November 2024, and they might be a crucial step forward in our understanding of the ripples in space-time and the events that create them. In the 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves, we have detected hundreds …

The Europa Clipper spacecraft may soon be pummeled by charged particles — particles ripped away from the ion tail streaming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. That’s the new prediction from two European researchers whose computer code allows them to identify when spacecraft can align with a comet‘s tail and the sun. Completely harmless to the spacecraft, the event provides a …

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained without this tool. The calculations using virtual particles predict the bizarre behavior …

“Scientists Control 6,100 Quantum Particles Simultaneously”: Caltech Physicists Reveal Computer That Makes Silicon Chips Worthless  Rude Baguette Caltech Team Sets Record with 6,100-Qubit Array  Caltech Device with 6100 qubits is a step towards largest quantum computer yet  New Scientist Record 6,100 Qubits Form World’s Largest Quantum Array  IFLScience 6100 Qubit Tweezer Array Achieves High Coherence  Bioengineer.org Source link

The transformation of neutrinos in a neutron star merger could be crucial to shaping the way events of the collision unfold. For the first time, a team of physicists has simulated how neutrinos change their flavors during a merger event. Their results show that tweaking the parameters and outcomes of these transformations also alters the outcomes of the merger, including …

Our sun can seem deceptively peaceful from Earth, but only because we have the luxury of living 150 million kilometers away. Up close, it’s a nuclear-fuelled carnival ride of terror, launching countless tiny particles at speed far into interplanetary space. “The Sun is the most energetic particle accelerator in the Solar System,” writes a team of researchers behind a study …

Chemists at MIT have discovered a way to fortify iodine salt with iron, resulting in a product that, if made widely available, could combat one of the world’s most prevalent nutrient deficiencies. A bout 2 billion people suffer from iron deficiency, which can lead to anemia, impaired brain development in children, and increased infant mortality. The richest sources are all …

Mathematicians have found a way to transform an unproductive quantum computing approach by reviving a class of previously discarded particles. Quantum computers can solve problems beyond the capabilities of classical computers by using principles like superposition. This means a quantum bit, or qubit, can represent both 0 and 1 simultaneously, similar to the famous thought experiment of a cat being …

For about 15 years, a powerful radio telescope on planet Earth dutifully recorded data about a location in the cosmos billions of light-years away from us — and, at last, astronomers managed to stitch together those extensive observations to reveal a full picture of what this telescope has been looking at. It’s … the Eye of Sauron! Well, sort of. …