Science: European physicists who study particles from outer space made a pitch this week for the ambitious and costly experiments they want to build over the next decade. “We’ve worked hard to get the tools; now we need to move to large-scale detectors,” says Christian Spiering of DESY, Germany’s particle physics lab in Hamburg.
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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