Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution
A surprising new solution to the famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information. ..
A surprising new solution to the famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information. ..
In the 1960s, drillers noticed that certain fluids would firm up if they flowed too fast. Researchers have finally explained why. ..
The first detailed observations of lightning's emergence inside a cloud have exposed how electric fields grow strong enough to let bolts fly. ..
A mathematical model shows how a thermodynamic mechanism could have made protocells split in two. ..
Through his encyclopedic study of the electron, an obscure figure named Stefano Laporta found a handle on the subatomic world’s fearsome complexity. ..
Physicists are translating commonsense principles into strict mathematical constraints for how our universe must have behaved at the beginning of time. ..
Physicists have linked the “gravitational memory effect” to fundamental cosmic symmetries and a potential solution to the black hole information paradox. ..
Years of conflicting measurements have led physicists to propose a “dark sector” of invisible particles that could explain dark matter and the universe’s ..
Results from neural networks support the idea that brains use predictions to create perceptions—and that they work that way to conserve power. ..
In nonreciprocal systems, “exceptional points” are helping researchers understand phase transitions and possibly other phenomena. ..