New Delhi: The Mumbai-based Lodha Foundation is all set to start the Lodha Theoretical Physics Institute or LTPI in May 2026, has been designated as a center for advanced research in fundamental physics. It is set to be led by Jainendra Jain, professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania and winner of the Wolf … Read more
This week, Google published a paper explaining how a quantum computer can find a private key in bitcoin in 9 minutes, which has ramifications for Ethereum, other tokens, private banks, and everything in the world. Quantum computing is easy to mistake for a faster version of conventional computing. But it’s not a more powerful chip … Read more
Quantum systems do not fail silently; they fall in the blink of an eye. In less time than it takes light to travel through a virus, a carefully ordered quantum state can break down, losing the coherence that makes quantum technology so powerful. For many years, this rapid separation occurs within one to two femtoseconds … Read more
Dark matter is thought to be ubiquitous, surrounding galaxies and helping to create the largest objects in the universe. But no one knows what it is made of. Now, a new theoretical study presents a unique and surprising scenario that may provide some of the missing pieces of the puzzle. Some of the dark matter … Read more
Stephen Hawking showed in the 1970s that black holes are not completely black. They slowly emit radiation and shrink over time, eventually disappearing. However, there was a problem with this explanation. If a black hole evaporates completely, what happens to all the information about the matter it has absorbed? Quantum physics says that information cannot … Read more
Physicists have created a very precise and very complex atomic clock based on ytterbium, which can test the limits of the Standard Model and even search for invisible dark matter. Led by Taiki Ishiyama, PhD, a physicist at Kyoto University’s School of Science in Japan, the project used the unusual orbital change of atoms, which … Read more
The scale is attractive in its simplicity: AI needs more power than the world’s internet can provide, so it moves data centers into orbit, where the sun never sets and electricity is free. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a growing constellation of startups are now racing to make that vision a reality. The problem, according to … 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
Elliot McGucken These photos of 70-foot-tall cones of light shining in the California desert may look pretty, but they have a surface and actually represent some interesting ideas about the evolution of space-time. Dr. Elliot McGucken is a nationally recognized photographer and Ph.D. a physicist. He likes to combine his two passions, which he believes … Read more
Six Timepix chips developed at CERN will measure the radiation environment in the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II mission. At 00:35 CEST today, the mission of Artemis II successfully began, marking the first manned trip to the Moon since 1972. During their ten-day journey in the Orion spacecraft, the four … Read more