quantum mechanics

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Infinite in All Directions: India’s Caves, Quantum Dots, the Mathematicus

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/01/2017

Infinite in All Directions is The Wire‘s science newsletter....

Antimatter Breakthrough Sheds Light on Matter’s Shadowy Twin

Igor Bray 20/12/2016

One of the great mysteries of the universe is...

A computer simulation shows two neutron stars, the extremely dense cores of now-dead stars, smashing into each other to form a blackhole. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (quantum)

Has LIGO Actually Proved Einstein Wrong – and Found Signs of Quantum Gravity?

Vasudevan Mukunth 15/12/2016

Three physicists have predicted that finding 'echoes' of gravitational...

The surface of a natural graphite crystal. The graphene derived from such crystals exhibit interesting and unique topological properties. Credit: University of Exeter/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Scientists Shouldn’t Always Look for Utility in the Beauty of Shapes

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/10/2016

It’s not good to harp on applications in order...

A cup filled with superfluid helium. Because of quantum mechanical effects, the helium will crawl up the sides of the cup in a thin film and collect as a droplet on the outside, and drip below. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

How the Physics Laureates Used Geometry to Tame the Very Weird of the Very Small

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/10/2016

The physics Nobel laureates were able to use ideas...

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Start of LHC’s 2016 Run Suffused With Hopes of a New Particle

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/05/2016

This year is when we might discover another foundational...

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Relativity’s Kin, the Bose-Einstein Condensate, is 90 Now

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/12/2015

It's been 20 years since physicists realised the first...