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On 5 August 2026, at a plenary session of the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Brazil, the BESIII collaboration told the field that the lightest pseudoscalar glueball dominates…
Quantinuum reports 48 logical qubits built from 98 physical ones. Google's Willow result used 101 physical qubits to make one. IBM reports 70. All three numbers are correct. All three…
In 2019 the reference estimate for breaking RSA-2048 was 20 million noisy qubits running for eight hours. In March 2026 a Caltech and Oratomic team put the figure at 10,000.…
The first ever measurement of neutron capture on niobium-94 came back close to the theoretical estimate it replaced. That is the key finding. For two decades, stellar models struggled to…
Two oxygen nuclei carry sixteen protons and neutrons apiece. Smash them together and the jets that come out lose energy on the way, which means something hot and dense sat…
Between early 2025 and mid-2026, quantum processors have gone from simulating toy models of particle physics to watching confinement, string breaking, and hadron scattering play out in real time. These…
A quantum processor has run a universal gate set built entirely out of moving exotic quasiparticles around one another and fusing them together. Fifty-four qubits, one phase of matter, three…
A fourth neutrino that feels no weak force explained thirty years of anomalies. MicroBooNE excluded it at 95% confidence and KATRIN found no kink in 36 million electrons. The eV-scale…
A pressurised water reactor that has been offline for three weeks still sends about six antineutrino events a day into a detector 400 metres away. Double Chooz has measured that…
Gluons pull on each other, so they should be able to bind into a particle with no quarks at all. BESIII says X(2370) is dominated by one. The measurements are…
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