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A transcript of episode 4 of The Conversation Weekly podcast. Including a story on how scientists are speeding up the hunt for dark matter.
A transcript of episode 4 of The Conversation Weekly podcast. Including a story on how scientists are speeding up the hunt for dark matter.
Attosecond science allows the extremely fast movements of electron particles to be observed. This emerging field brings both opportunity and controversy.
Today’s supercomputers are enormously powerful, but the work they do − running AI and tackling difficult science − is pushing them to their limits. Building bigger supercomputers won’t be easy.
Thanks to two studies published in Nature last Thursday, the chance of successful teleportation has considerably increased. Which is a good thing, right? Whether or not you’ve ever been on a long-haul…
Scientist have managed to bind light together to form molecules, a state of matter which has been compared to creating a…
A new discover in the field of quantum electronics could lead to a dramatic improvement of computing speeds, data storage…
Our notion of reality is built on everyday experiences. But wave-particle duality is so strange that we are forced to re-examine our common conceptions. Wave-particle duality refers to the fundamental…
Plus new research finds a way to speed up the search for dark matter. Listen to episode 4 of The Conversation Weekly.
The true “informational age” of the cosmos may be 62 billion years, not just the 13.8 billion years of our current expansion.
Encryption has come a long way since the days of Sparta and Rome, but it’s still not 100% secure.