Daily Mail: Deep beneath the ice of Antarctica, the world’s strangest observatory has finally reached completion. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a gigantic telescope at the South Pole that is designed to detect elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos that travel through Earth at the speed of light. Although construction was not completed until 18 December, the telescope has been collecting data for several years. The Daily Mail‘s Niall Firth writes about the science being conducted there and includes photographs and a diagram of the facility.
An ultracold atomic gas can sync into a single quantum state. Researchers uncovered a speed limit for the process that has implications for quantum computing and the evolution of the early universe.
January 09, 2026 02:51 PM
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