Quantum Physics
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Experiment confirms plan for quantum-coded messages
A new way to send secret quantum messages uses shorter keys.
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A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold key to quantum gravity
A new Einsteinian equation, ER=EPR, may be the clue physicists need to merge quantum mechanics with general relativity.
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General relativity has readers feeling upside down
Readers respond to the June 25, 2016, issue of Science News with questions on Earth's age, moaning whales, plate tectonics and more.
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Quantum fragility may help birds navigate
Birds’ internal compasses may rely on the delicate nature of the quantum world.
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Quantum weirdness survives space travel
Quantum weirdness travels from Earth to space and back again.
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Schrödinger’s cat now dead and alive in two boxes at once
The living-dead feline has been split in two, using a system of microwaves inside superconducting cavities.
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Physicists smash particle imitators
A new quasiparticle collider smashes together the faux-particles that appear in solid materials.
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Communicating covertly goes quantum
Researchers are working to make quantum messages that are undetectable.
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Information is physical, even in quantum systems, study suggests
A thermodynamic principle says that deleting information generates heat, and now, scientists say that goes for quantum systems, too.
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Gamers outperform computer at quantum task
Quantum mechanics may be weird, but a new video game shows that human intuition can still best computers at quantum tasks.
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Finding wonders in fat
In the latest issue of Science News, Editor in Chief Eva Emerson talks fat cells, thermodynamics, and lead poisoning.
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Ultrasmall engines bend second law of thermodynamics
Car engines and batteries run because of the second law of thermodynamics, which appears to work, with just a little bending, for ultrasmall engines in the quantum realm as well.
