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May 19, 2026

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Quantum Ghost Imaging Works Using Only Sunlight in Stunning New Experiment

May 17, 2026 Scientists have achieved something that once sounded almost impossible: using ordinary sunlight to create quantum-linked photon pairs, a phenomenon normally dependent on precise laboratory lasers. By building a sun-tracking system that funnels ...

Quantum Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Teleportation and Computing

May 13, 2026 Scientists in Japan have developed a new way to instantly detect elusive quantum “W states,” a major milestone for quantum technology. The breakthrough could help unlock faster quantum communication, teleportation, and powerful new computing ...

Scientists Just Sent Unhackable Quantum Keys Across 120 Kilometers

May 9, 2026 Scientists have taken a major step toward ultra-secure quantum communication by demonstrating a remarkably stable quantum encryption system that worked across more than 120 kilometers of optical fiber. Using tiny semiconductor quantum dots that emit ...

Solar Cells Just Did the “Impossible” with This 130% Breakthrough

Mar. 28, 2026 A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result reached about 130% efficiency, meaning more ...

Scientists Just Teleported Information Using Light

Nov. 29, 2025 Quantum communication is edging closer to reality thanks to a breakthrough in teleporting information between photons from different quantum dots—one of the biggest challenges in building a quantum internet. By creating nearly identical ...

New Quantum Breakthrough Could Transform Teleportation and Computing

Sep. 13, 2025 Scientists have finally unlocked a way to identify the elusive W state of quantum entanglement, solving a decades-old problem and opening paths to quantum teleportation and advanced quantum ...

'Universe's Awkward Handshake' -- Simplifying Information Processing Using Photons a Quantum Breakthrough

May 12, 2025 Researchers have developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more practical and reliable. The advancement could pave the way for more secure data ...

The Squid Galaxy's Neutrino Game Just Leveled Up

May 8, 2025 In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new paper posits that helium nuclei collide with ...

Experimental Quantum Communications Network

May 6, 2025 Researchers recently connected their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network using two optical ...

Smart Surfaces: A Powerless Solution to Multipath Signal Interference

May 1, 2025 Multipath interference disrupts wireless signals, causing issues like TV ghosting and fading. Now, researchers have developed a passive metasurface that overcomes traditional filtering limits. Using a time-varying interlocking mechanism with ...

Nanophotonic Platform Boosts Efficiency of Nonlinear-optical Quantum Teleportation

Apr. 24, 2025 Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were ...

Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks

Apr. 2, 2025 Applied physicists have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum ...

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“Purifying” Photons: Scientists Found a Way to Clean Light Itself

Dec. 23, 2025 A new discovery shows that messy, stray light can be used to clean up quantum systems instead of disrupting them. University of Iowa researchers found that unwanted photons produced by lasers can be ...

Scientists Just Proved a Fundamental Quantum Rule for the First Time

Aug. 17, 2025 Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to its most fundamental limits. Using ...

Einstein Was Wrong: MIT Just Settled a 100-Year Quantum Debate

Aug. 2, 2025 Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the true limits of light’s wave–particle duality. Their results proved ...

Researchers Explore Using Soil for Heat Storage

Apr. 2, 2025 When spring arrives and the heating season comes to an end, keeping warm becomes less of an issue. However, scientists remind us that it is not just a seasonal necessity -- heat is also a valuable ...

Device Enables Direct Communication Among Multiple Quantum Processors

Mar. 21, 2025 Researchers developed a scalable interconnect that facilitates all-to-all communication among many quantum processor modules by enabling each to send and receive quantum information on demand in a ...

New Discovery Could 'Revolutionize Carbon Fiber Industry'

Mar. 10, 2025 A research team has developed a groundbreaking new method of producing carbon fiber while drastically reducing its energy ...

Multiplexing Entanglement in a Quantum Network

Feb. 26, 2025 Researchers use rare-earth ions to achieve the first-ever demonstration of entanglement multiplexing between individual memory qubits in a quantum ...

From Photons to Protons: Team Makes Breakthrough in High-Energy Particle Detection

Feb. 11, 2025 Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have ...

Quantum Engineers 'Squeeze' Laser Frequency Combs to Make More Sensitive Gas Sensors

Jan. 17, 2025 Scientists use devices known as frequency comb lasers to search for methane in the air above oil and gas operations and to screen for signs of ...

Twisted Edison: Bright, Elliptically Polarized Incandescent Light

Dec. 27, 2024 Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic ...

First Demonstration of Quantum Teleportation Over Busy Internet Cables

Dec. 20, 2024 Quantum teleportation could provide near-instant communication over long distances. But, inside Internet cables, photons needed for teleportation are lost within the millions of light particles ...

Researchers Discover Simple Fix to Eliminate Energy Loss in Fusion Plasma Heating

Dec. 19, 2024 Researchers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory found a way to make plasma heating more efficient for fusion. By slightly angling a Faraday screen near the plasma antenna, they stopped unwanted ...

Quantum-Inspired Design Boosts Efficiency of Heat-to-Electricity Conversion

Nov. 21, 2024 Researchers have found a new way to improve a key element of thermophotovoltaic systems, which convert heat into electricity via light. Engineers designed a thermal emitter that can deliver high ...

Scientists Find a New Way of Entangling Light and Sound

Nov. 14, 2024 For a wide variety of emerging quantum technologies, such as secure quantum communications and quantum computing, quantum entanglement is a prerequisite. Scientists have now demonstrated a ...

A Trick of Light: Researchers Turn Silicon Into Direct Bandgap Semiconductor

Oct. 31, 2024 Researchers have come up with a way to turn silicon into a direct bandgap semiconductor, opening the door to the manufacture of ultrathin silicon solar ...

Quantum Simulator Could Help Uncover Materials for High-Performance Electronics

Oct. 30, 2024 Researchers created a synthetic magnetic field using a superconducting quantum processor, which could enable them to precisely study complex phenomena in materials, like phase changes. This could ...

The Evolution of Green Energy Technology: Developing Three-Dimensional Smart Energy Devices With Radiant Cooling and Solar Absorption

Oct. 25, 2024 - DGIST, KAIST, and Korea University collaborated to develop a three-dimensional device with reversible heating/cooling based on the thermal radiation phenomenon -- Research published as a cover ...

New AI Models of Plasma Heating Lead to Important Corrections in Computer Code Used for Fusion Research

Oct. 9, 2024 New artificial intelligence models for plasma heating can do more than was previously thought possible, not only increasing the prediction speed 10 million times while preserving accuracy but also ...

High Costs Slow Widespread Use of Heat Pumps, Study Shows

Oct. 1, 2024 The high cost of installing heat pumps for home heating could slow down people widely adopting the technology and leave government targets missed, research ...

Thermal Effects in Spintronics Systematically Assessed for First Time

Sep. 24, 2024 Spintronics -- devices that use microscopic magnetism in conjunction with electric current -- could lead to computing technology as fast as conventional electronics but much more energy efficient. As ...

Researchers Simplify Design of Optical Atomic Clocks Without Compromising Performance

Sep. 18, 2024 Researchers demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn't require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without ...

Urban Heating and Cooling to Play Substantial Role in Future Energy Demand Under Climate Change

Sep. 13, 2024 Existing global energy projections underestimate the impact of climate change on urban heating and cooling systems by roughly 50% by 2099 if greenhouse gas emissions remain high, researchers report. ...

Microwaving Waste Cooking Oil Into Useful Chemicals

Sep. 9, 2024 Converting biomass such as waste cooking oil into useful chemicals through catalysis can help create a more sustainable chemical industry. However, conventional techniques require enormous energy and ...

Extraterrestrial Chemistry With Earthbound Possibilities

Aug. 21, 2024 Who are we? Why are we here? We are stardust, the result of chemistry occurring throughout vast clouds of interstellar gas and dust. To better understand how that chemistry could create prebiotic ...

Advancing Modular Quantum Information Processing

Aug. 15, 2024 A team of physicists envisions a modular system for scaling quantum processors with a flexible way of linking qubits over long distances to enable them to work in concert to perform quantum ...

Engineers Bring Efficient Optical Neural Networks Into Focus

Aug. 12, 2024 Researchers have published a programmable framework that overcomes a key computational bottleneck of optics-based artificial intelligence systems. In a series of image classification experiments, ...

Heating for Fusion: Why Toast Plasma When You Can Microwave It!

Aug. 6, 2024 Can plasma be sufficiently heated inside a tokamak using only microwaves? New research suggests it can! Eliminating the central ohmic heating coil normally used in tokamaks will free up much-needed ...

Researchers Trap Atoms, Forcing Them to Serve as Photonic Transistors

July 29, 2024 Researchers have developed a means to realize cold-atom integrated nanophotonic ...

Faster, Cleaner Way to Extract Lithium from Battery Waste

July 29, 2024 Researchers uncover a rapid, efficient and environmentally friendly method for selective lithium recovery using microwave radiation and a readily biodegradable ...

Optical Fibers Fit for the Age of Quantum Computing

July 29, 2024 A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum ...