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This image may not be used in educational posters Double-slit experiment Computer illustration showing a plane wave (bottom right) passing through a gap in a screen, and the resultant circular wave then passing through a screen with two gaps. The gaps act as new wave sources and the wavefronts bend to create two sets of circular waves radiating outwards. These two new waves create an interference pattern as they interact. At the point where a wave peak from one hits a wave peak from another, or a trough hits a trough, they reinforce each other; their magnitudes are summed. This is known as constructive interference. Where a trough hits a peak or vice versa and they cancel each other out. This is known as destructive interference.

Physics

Can particles really be in two places at the same time?

When talking about quantum physics, people will often nonchalantly say that particles can be in two places at once. Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explores what is actually going on

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Humans

How to make the best cup of cold-brew coffee

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Computer process conceptual design

Technology

US chooses encryption tools to protect us from quantum computers

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A photograph of the optical table on which a quantum computer, made from specially engineered diamonds, can very efficiently cool itself just by performing calculations.

Technology

Quantum computer cools itself down by performing calculations

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Society

Count the bugs "splatted" on your car to help track insect decline

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A quantum microphone

Technology

Quantum microphone works even better than a regular one

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Physics

Will we ever unite physics? Clocks in superposition could offer clues

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Quantum boomerang

Physics

Physicists have made a quantum boomerang for the first time

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Technology

UK military investigating quantum computers for battlefield tanks

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Physics

A new kind of time crystal has been created and lasts 10 milliseconds

A time crystal has been created by firing lasers at rubidium atoms. It only lasts for 10 milliseconds, but it could reveal the precise scale at which quantum effects take hold

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Technology

Quantum computers proved to have ‘quantum advantage’ on some tasks

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Technology

Quantum computers could create completely new forms of matter

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Humans

How science can help you bake a loaf of bread that stays softer longer

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Physics

Hot plasma mirror may help solve Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox

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