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Quadratic Twist: The Secret Weapon Against Quantum Attacks on Digital Signatures

A lone ranger riding off into the sunset might say something sage and vague, such as “a man is only as good as his word.” But these gritty prophets never said anything about verifying a man’s — or anyone else’s — word in the wild frontiers of the digital or quantum era.

8 Dec 2023

Unveiling Dark Matter’s Dominance in the Universe

Constituting an estimated 85% of the universe’s matter, dark matter is nonluminous and remains poorly understood.

8 Dec 2023

First 3D View of Galactic Winds Unveils Upward and Downward Gas Outflows

For the inaugural instance, astronomers have witnessed the upward and downward expulsion of gas from spiral galaxies at high velocities in three dimensions, extending well beyond the confines of the galaxy.

7 Dec 2023

New Observations Confirm Galactic Winds as Key Regulators of Star Formation

The flow of matter between galaxies and their surroundings is made possible by galactic winds.

7 Dec 2023

Growing Perfect Diamond Thin Films for Quantum Information Systems

There are many common media narratives of a single driven scientist having their "eureka!" moment and changing the world.

7 Dec 2023

Quantum Simulation Unravels Mystery of Neutron Star Glitches

A collaboration between quantum physicists and astrophysicists, led by Francesca Ferlaino and Massimo Mannarelli, has achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding neutron star glitches.

6 Dec 2023

High-Resolution Telescope Data Reveals Unusually Young Stars at Heart of the Milky Way

By examining high-resolution data obtained from a 10 m telescope in Hawaii, scientists from Lund University in Sweden have attained fresh insights into three stars situated at the core of the Milky Way.

6 Dec 2023

Unveiling Magnetic Monopoles in Rust-Like Substance

Scientists have detected magnetic monopoles—individual magnetic charges—in a substance closely associated with rust, suggesting potential applications for advancing eco-friendly and faster computing technologies.

6 Dec 2023

Algorithmiq Demonstrates Path to Quantum Utility with IBM

Algorithmiq, a scaleup developing quantum algorithms to solve the most complex problems in life sciences, has successfully run one of the largest scale error mitigation experiments to date on IBM’s hardware

6 Dec 2023

Unveiling the Mystery of Black Hole Influence on Galaxies

A global group of astronomers discovered an entirely new way to analyze the behavior of active black holes.

5 Dec 2023

New Strategy for Tracking Space Junk

Researchers from the University of Michigan have devised a strategy that might finally allow satellite and spacecraft operators to identify minuscule particles of junk circling Earth.

5 Dec 2023

Superconducting Nanowires Achieve High-Efficiency Detection of Protein Ions

An international research team led by quantum physicist Markus Arndt (University of Vienna) has achieved a breakthrough in the detection of protein ions: Due to their high energy sensitivity, superconducting nanowire detectors achieve almost 100% quantum efficiency and exceed the detection efficiency of conventional ion detectors at low energies by a factor of up to a 1,000.

5 Dec 2023

A New Perspective on the Universe’s Expansion

The universe undergoes expansion, and the rate of this expansion is characterized by the Hubble-Lemaitre constant.

4 Dec 2023

Dusty Star-Forming Galaxy Emerges From Cosmic Veil

Initially emerging as a luminous blob through ground-based telescopes, this enigmatic entity vanished entirely in Hubble Space Telescope images. However, it has recently resurfaced as a faint yet discernible galaxy in a capture from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

4 Dec 2023