Antimatter is not known for being easy to get ahold of. That’s part of why these particles remain so cryptic. But recently, a team of physicists at Northwestern University managed to trap a single antimatter particle for months. Cooling it to temperatures near absolute zero, they could control its quantum states with great precision without
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Quantum computers, such as this one shown at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, could run programs that have been almost completely generated by artificial-intelligence tools. Credit: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg/Getty ‘Vibe coding’ is moving into quantum computing — a field in which programming has notoriously required sophisticated skills. To lower this barrier, researchers at
Glueballs are made of gluons, which bind quarks to form protons and neutrons.Credit: Sefa kart/Getty After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball that is made entirely of force-carrying particles. Researchers at the Beijing Spectrometer III (BESIII) Collaboration,
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