In a white paper written on the same day as the Caltech paper, Gidney and his colleagues announced that they had developed a new method for breaking ECC that was at least 10 times more efficient than previous methods. They estimate that most cryptocurrencies would provide seconds to a machine with less than 500,000 qubits. … Read more
New research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has shown that the rotation of the plasma core is a key factor in how particles are distributed within a fusion reactor system. The study shows why plasma particles hit some parts of the reactor more than others. This finding allows computer simulations to match experimental … Read more
The Big Bang is often described as the moment when everything began – the point of infinite density where the laws of physics were broken. But what if that picture isn’t perfect? A new study presents a different account of the birth of the universe: Instead of a sudden start from singularity, as predicted by … Read more
When you make a purchase through our article links, Future and its affiliates may receive a commission. A comparison of the early stages of the universe. The proposed changes to Einstein’s relativity suggest that the universe did not begin in a single state, which could solve one of the most prominent questions about the Big … Read more
Anthony Leggett not only made a name for himself as a pioneering academic physicist but in 2003 he shared the Nobel Prize in physics for his research on superfluidity and the theory of superfluidity. However, he had left science at school as something “incomprehensible” – especially physics, which “knows in one ear and out the … Read more
For the first time, physicists have discovered that ‘holes’ of light can travel faster than light itself. They are known as phase singularities or optical vortices, and since the 1970s, scientists have predicted that, just as the eddies in the river can move faster than the water flowing around them, so can the waves of … Read more
For the first time, physicists have discovered that ‘holes’ of light can travel faster than light itself. They are known as phase singularities or optical vortices, and since the 1970s, scientists have predicted that, just as the eddies in the river can move faster than the water flowing around them, so can the waves of … Read more
researchers may have found the first direct evidence of ancient black holes, which could revolutionize our understanding of dark matter. A gravitational wave, captured by LIGO in November 2025proposed a revolutionary hypothesis: the collision that produced the signal may not have involved ordinary black holes in stars, but rather black holes formed in the early … Read more
When our powerful infrared telescopes allowed astronomers to look further into the future, they made some amazing discoveries. One of them involves supermassive black holes (SMBH), the physics-defying behemoths at the center of massive galaxies such as the Milky Way. In fact, the SMBH grew much faster in the jewelry world than it does in … Read more
A photon from a star billions of light-years away takes no time to reach a telescope. It’s not too little time. There is nothing. That result is not a measured or poetic way of speaking. It comes directly from the mathematics of special relativity, and it points to another strange thing about the nature of … Read more