Freely levitating rotor spins out ultraprecise sensors for classical and quantum physics

With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

California physicist and Nobel laureate John Martinis won’t quit on quantum computers

Californian John Martinis won a Nobel Prize for physics work he did decades ago. Today, he's on a quest to create the fastest ...

This year's Physics Nobel goes to 3 researchers for discoveries way back in the 1980s that paved the way to quantum computing

Specifically "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit." ...
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So what exactly is the current state of physics?

In the light of the recent Engineer’s Bookshelf recommendation of”TheBlackHole War” and recent TV programs such as Science Channel's”Through the Wormhole” with Morgan Freeman presenter, BBC'sinfo-lite ...
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Physics Student Breaks Down Gymnastics Physics

Emily Kuhn, a former gymnast and current physics PhD student at Yale University, explains all the math behind the amazing flips and turns we see during the Olympic gymnastics competitions. Emily ...