Maths & Physical Sciences

Job For Particle Accelerators May Be Possible on Tabletop

IEEE Spectrum: Testing whether gravity obeys the laws of classical physics or quantum mechanics is no easy matter. Discovering mineral deposits from space and etching atom-sized lithographs aren’t exactly simple either. But all three tasks may soon belong to a quantum…

Physicists Learn to Superfreeze Antimatter (Hint: Pew Pew!)

Wired: The thing about antimatter is that there just really isn’t very much of it at all. No one knows why. And making the stuff from scratch is like trying to win a GBBO showstopper. (The theme is “antiprotons.”) Plus,…

How Space Lasers Could Soon Beam Clean Power Down To Earth

Forbes: The idea of space-based laser weapons orbiting the earth has been a part of popular culture and real life government projects for decades, from James Bond’s Goldeneye to Ronald Reagan’s ambitious “Star Wars” program. Recently, the Pentagon began developing…

The Near-Magical Mystery of Quasiparticles

Quanta Magazine: Waking up in an alternate reality, Harry Kim, an officer aboard the starship USS Voyager, creates a distortion in the space-time continuum with a beam of polarons. Sounds like science fiction? Well, yes, but only in part. “Star Trek…