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ALMA Watches a Massive Binary Assemble in Real Time
Eight years of ALMA data reveal two massive young stars in a highly stretched, misaligned orbit, suggesting they formed separately and later merged gravitationally rather than from one shared disk.
Read full story →Big supernova dataset challenges dark energy theory
A new catalog of 2,884 Type Ia supernovae spanning three decades suggests dark energy's strength may change over time, challenging the standard cosmological model.
Read full story →Entangled particles revive a 35-year-old test of the Standard Model
The BESIII collaboration used entangled lambda hyperon pairs to independently re-measure a key Standard Model parameter, sifting through 10 billion collision events.
Read full story →Superfluid qubit could help scale up quantum computers
University of Surrey physicists propose a new qubit design based on friction-free superfluid helium-3, theoretically cutting error rates about 100-fold versus superconducting qubits.
Read full story →Uncovering 'spooky' quantum effect in the Large Hadron Collider
Oxford physicists confirmed quantum entanglement persists among heavy, short-lived Z bosons produced in LHC collisions, extending the phenomenon into a new energy regime.
Read full story →Scientists find a way to slash computer memory energy use by orders of magnitude
University of Edinburgh researchers used optimal control theory to design magnetic-field pulses that could cut memory-switching energy use by orders of magnitude, nearing the fundamental Landauer limit.
Read full story →Dark energy debunked? Cosmic acceleration may be an illusion
A reanalysis of over 1,700 Type Ia supernovae suggests the universe's apparent acceleration may be directional rather than uniform, challenging the standard dark energy picture.
Read full story →A Pair of White Dwarfs Locked in a Six-Minute Orbit Might One Day Be Observed By Gravitational Waves
Astronomers found eRASSU J0608, a white-dwarf binary with an ultra-short six-minute orbit decaying in a way consistent with gravitational-wave energy loss, a candidate future LISA target.
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