Tag: astrophysics
Victoria Grinberg: the astrophysicist sharing her love for science – Physics World
Victoria Grinberg, who is the first “liaison scientist” at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands, talks to Hamish Johnston about...
Starlink Satellites Are ‘Leaking’ Signals That Interfere With Our Most Sensitive Radio Telescopes
When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is...
Adaptive Quantum State Tomography with Active Learning
Hannah Lange1,2, Matjaž Kebrič1,2, Maximilian Buser1,2, Ulrich Schollwöck1,2, Fabian Grusdt1,2, and Annabelle Bohrdt3,41Department of Physics and Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität...
Who will win the Nobel Prize for Physics? Our predictions for 2023 – Physics World
It’s a mug’s game, we know, but we just can’t help ourselves here at Physics World when it comes to predicting...
Scientists Crack How Gravity Affects Antimatter: What That Means for Our Understanding of the Universe
A substance called antimatter is at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. We know that every particle has an...
In the Milky Way’s Stars, a History of Violence | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionLate in the evening of October 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble sat at the eyepiece of the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, atop...
Rethinking physics: Silvia Vignolini on succeeding at the boundary between disciplines – Physics World
Silvia Vignolini, a physicist who studies natural photonic structures, talks to Julianna Photopoulos about working across traditional scientific boundaries, co-founding start-up...
How Scientists Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Solar Cycle Prediction | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionThe sun looks immutable, a boring celestial lightbulb that’s always turned on. But this fusion-powered ball of plasma is in constant flux. Every 11...
Neutrino fluids in supernovae could point to new physics – Physics World
Neutrinos created in exploding stars could point to physics beyond the Standard Model, according to...
Inside Quantum Technology’s “Inside Scoop,” Quantum and Dark Matter – Inside Quantum Technology
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 01 Sep 2023 Recently, I wrote an article for Discover Magazine on how atomic...
In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionLast October, as the James Webb Space Telescope beamed down its first long exposures of the sky near the constellation Eridanus, astronomers began to...
Switching quantum reference frames in the N-body problem and the absence of global relational perspectives
Augustin Vanrietvelde1,2,3,4, Philipp A. Höhn5,2,6,7, and Flaminia Giacomini8,2,7,91Laboratoire Méthodes Formelles, Inria Saclay, France2Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna3Quantum...