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Researchers Smash Quantum Teleportation Distance Record, Beaming a Photon Over 89 Miles
New LHC Results: We Were Sure We Found the Higgs Boson, and Now We’re Even Surer
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Aug 2, 2012
Nine Unsuspecting Scientists Win $27 Million in Suddenly Announced Largest-Ever Annual Physics Prize
Smartphone Clocks Could Keep Precise Time By Syncing With Fluorescent Lights’ Flicker
The Zero-Energy Frontier: Racing to Find the Higgs Boson
Physicists Propose Building a Crystal of Space-Time
Physics Students Say A Gliding Batman Would Die Upon Landing
A Diamond Quantum Bit Holds Data for Nearly Two Seconds at Room Temperature
Hello, Higgs Boson: LHC’s New Particle Looks Like the Real Thing
Tantalizing Signs of Higgs Boson Found By U.S. Tevatron Collider
Chinese Physicists Teleport Photons Over 100 Kilometers
NIST’s Quantum Simulator Mimics Hundreds of Qubits Interacting
In New Quantum Experiment, Effect Happens Before Cause
For the First Time, Electrons are Observed Splitting into Smaller Quasi-Particles
Students Invent a Pothole Repair Patch Made from a Non-Newtonian Fluid
The Fastest-Ever Random Number Generator Conjures Digits from Subatomic Noise in a Vacuum
How It Would Work: Creating a Quantum Computer
While the LHC Hunts Higgs, the Jefferson Accelerator Looks to Illuminate Mysterious ‘Dark Photons’
The World’s Most Sensitive Scale Can Weigh Single Protons
“Jarno Smeets” and the Physics of True Human Flight
For the First Time, a Message Sent With Neutrinos
New Breed of ‘Nuclear Clocks’ Could be 100 Times More Accurate than Today’s Atomic Timekeepers
Captured: The First-Ever Images of Atoms Moving Inside a Molecule
Tevatron Finds Hints of Higgs Boson, Just Where CERN Sniffed it Last Winter
PopSci Q&A: Kate Findlay Talks About the Confluence of Quilting and the Large Hadron Collider
MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Prove Quantum Computing Is Impossible
Physicists Hope to Catch Neutrons in the Act of Jumping from Our Universe to Another
Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Will Allow Secure Calculation on Encrypted Bits
The Largest-Ever Quantum Calculation Uses 84 Qubits and Takes Just 270 Milliseconds
Visualizing Fluid Dynamics in a Two-Horsepower Blender
The First Direct Measurements of Earth’s Rotation, Made With the World’s Most Stable Ring Laser
Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean
Researchers Entangle Two Millimeter-Sized Diamonds, A Huge Leap in the Scale of Quantum Entanglement
The Unsplittable Bit
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James Gleick
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Nov 1, 2011
Quantum Scheme Could Allow Submarines to Communicate Securely
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Might Be Explained By GPS Failing to Account For Special Relativity
Fermilab Stops Smashing Hadrons, Looks Into Smashing Muons
For the First Time, Researchers Use an Atom Interferometer to Measure Aircraft Acceleration
Baffling CERN Results Show Neutrinos Moving Faster Than the Speed of Light
Fermilab Astrophysicist’s Method Cuts Plane Boarding Times in Half
Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the Supersymmetry Theory of Everything
Video: What’s Wrong With the “Flintstones” Approach to Braking
Photovoltaic Breakthrough Lets Engineered Materials Emit More Blackbody Radiation Than Physics Says They Should
Fresh Data From CERN and Tevatron Gives A Glimpse of the God Particle
Is American Foot-Dragging Pushing the Future Elsewhere?
After Thousands of Years of Research, We’re Still Trying to Figure Out Static Electricity
Video: How to Make a Truck Jump 332 Feet
Lockheed Martin is Buying One of D-Wave’s Brand New Quantum Computers
Slow-Motion X-Ray Video Reveals the Slurpy Mechanics of Dogs’ Drinking
Electrons Are Incredibly Close to Being Perfect Spheres
CERN Physicists Trap and Observe Antimatter For a Record-Breaking Quarter Hour
For the First Time, Humans See Quantum Entanglement With the Naked Eye
Researchers Build a Transistor Out Of a Single Electron
Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves
“Einstein’s Pedometer” App Measures How Special Relativity Affects Your Daily Activity
Fermilab Physicists Have Detected A Possible New Particle or New Force
How One Man Waged War Against Gravity
Your Nose Could Use Quantum Tunneling to Distinguish Between Similar Molecules
Graphene Could Help Physicists Probe the Higgs Boson’s Secrets
To Improve Astronomic Measurements, Scientists Want To Launch A Light Bulb Into Space
As if Quantum Teleportation Weren’t Spooky Enough, Physicists Propose ‘Time Teleportation’
LHC Reports Failure To Create Black Holes, a Setback For String Theory
The Pioneer Anomaly, a 30-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery, May Be Resolved At Last
Deep Below South Dakota, a Mine Becomes a Physics Lab, and Miners Return to Work