Science
Scientists Stretched a Liquid Until It Snapped Like Glass
A Drexel team pulled a simple viscous liquid until it broke with an audible crack. The result rewrites a textbook boundary between fluids and solids.
Casey Cooper·
Physics
Science
Levitating Time Crystals That You Can Hold in Your Hand
NYU physicists created visible time crystals from Styrofoam beads and sound waves, breaking Newton's Third Law in the process.
Casey Cooper·
Science
Scientists Finally Made a Diamond Harder Than Diamond
After 50 years of failed attempts, Chinese researchers synthesized pure lonsdaleite, a hexagonal diamond that clocks in at 114 GPa, harder than the gems in your jewelry.
Casey Cooper·
Science
When Thousands of Atoms Act Like a Single Wave: A New Quantum Record
Quantum physics says particles can behave like waves. A new experiment just demonstrated this with a cluster of thousands of atoms, the largest 'quantum object' ever observed in wave form.
Casey Cooper·
Science
Superionic Water: The Strange State of Matter Inside Ice Giants
At extreme pressures, water becomes something impossible: a solid that flows like a liquid and conducts electricity. It may explain why Uranus and Neptune are so weird.
Casey Cooper·
Technology
Why Quantum Computers Keep Breaking Their Own Rules
From D-Wave's scalability breakthrough to Google's error correction milestone, quantum computing keeps achieving what experts said was impossible.
Casey Cooper·
Science
When Black Holes Collide: The 225-Sun Monster
The largest black hole collision ever recorded created a monster 225 times the mass of our sun, challenging what physicists thought possible about stellar evolution.
Casey Cooper·
Science
Why the Universe Cannot Be Simulated: The Mathematical Proof That Reality Is Not Computable
Physicists have used a 1930s mathematical theorem to demonstrate that the universe cannot be a computer simulation, settling a question that has haunted science and philosophy.
Casey Cooper·