The World’s Fastest Camera Can ‘Freeze Time’, Show Beams of Light in Slow Motion
When you push the button on a laser pointer, its entire beam seems to appear instantaneously. In reality, though, the photons shoot out like water from a hose, just at…
The Very Last Paper Stephen Hawking Worked on Has Just Been Published Online
We thought we’d seen the final paper from the late, great Stephen Hawking, but there’s now another – published in partnership with colleagues from Cambridge and Harvard, the paper tackles…
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Scientists Just Created Quantum Artificial Life For The First Time Ever
Can the origin of life be explained with quantum mechanics? And if so, are there quantum algorithms that could encode life itself? We’re a little closer to finding out the…
Astronomers Are Getting Excited Over Ghostly Traces of a Massive Cosmic Explosion
A comparison of surveys taken of the sky years apart has revealed an empty space where a star 280 million light years away once sat. Coded FIRST J1419+3940, records of…