Astronomers are reporting evidence for a possible second kilonova event, but the case is not closed. In fact, this situation is much more complex.
https://t.co/K8t8GkSRM3
6,100 qubits gathered for a laser-light party! Caltech researchers break records with a large array of neutral-atom qubits. https://t.co/dzgBMWiOZM @Caltech
Chi Nguyen remembers the moment she plugged her laptop into a large monitor in a conference room and onlookers began to cheer. She was presenting a team with the first "aliveness test" image taken by the agency's space telescope SPHEREx.
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Quantum computers promise to outperform today's traditional computers in many areas of science, but proving they will be superior has been challenging. Researchers have identified a physics problem where these futuristic machines would have the advantage.
https://t.co/Pr4NP2jK5o
For those who celebrate, November 7 is the birthday of two scientific giants: Marie Curie (1867-1934) and Lise Meitner (1878-1968), justly renowned for their world-changing investigations of radioactivity and nuclear fission.
A Caltech mathematician, Matilde Marcolli, teamed up with Noam Chomsky to figure out the algebraic structures underlying his latest theories of language. "Noam's work was so precise that it was easy to translate into math," she said. https://t.co/w9BKDJh3ob
Look at how the intense gravity of a neutron star is warping our view of its partner star in this cool, new animation by @AstroRob! (It's for a Caltech news story about newfound pairs of neutron stars and Sun-like stars) https://t.co/4GdXrxuiZk