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Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope blew up in 2025

The 3D-printed microscopeDr Liam M. Rooney/University of Strathclyde At the beginning of…

Qubits break quantum limit to encode information for longer

Quantum particles can now be made to carry useful information for longerkoto_feja/Getty…

Physics of light and magnetism rewritten after almost two centuries

Illustration of Faraday’s experiment showing how light becomes polarised by a magnetic…

The forgotten women of quantum physics

Physicist Chien-Shung Wu at the Smith College physics lab with an electrostatic…

‘Nightmare’ calculation may be too tricky for even quantum computers

Some problems are too hard for even quantum computersYaroslav Kushta/Getty Images Researchers…

What makes a quantum computer good?

3D rendering of a quantum computer’s chandelier-like structureShutterstock / Phonlamai Photo Eleven…

Physicists are uncovering when nature’s strongest force falters

The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion ColliderBROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY We…

There is an odd streak in the universe – and we still don’t know why

An asymmetry in the average temperature of the cosmic microwave background doesn’t…

Unforgeable quantum money can be stored in an ultracold ‘debit card’

A quantum version of a debit card could keep your money safeGlobalimages101/Alamy…

US military wants to secure the internet by making it more quantum

Can we add quantumness to the internet to make it more secure?NicoElNino…