H. Wang

Physicists ran two programs on a superconducting chip: an orderly one and a chaotic one. By measuring the distances between energy levels, they found that in chaos, these levels keep a respectful distance, like people in a crowded room forming a circle. On a graph, this looks like a 'donut'—an empty

Physicists at LHCb have learned to identify neutral B mesons—particles that can turn into their antiparticles—more precisely. The new method analyzes not individual traits but the entire decay picture, improving accuracy by 35%. This brings us closer to understanding why matter defeated antimatter i

A clear signal from the merger of two black holes, each about 33 solar masses, confirmed Hawking's theorem: the final horizon area turned out larger than the sum of the initial ones. This strengthens the link between black hole area and entropy.

Scientists applied a hybrid quantum algorithm to the Ising model—a problem of finding the most stable state of many interacting parts. A processor of 104 superconducting qubits found configurations with lower energy than the classical annealing method. Calculations show that with 100 qubits, a quant

If neutron stars had tiny bumps, they would constantly hum with gravitational waves. Using LIGO, scientists searched for that hum from 34 pulsars, the largest search of its kind. No signals were found, which pushes the theoretical limits even lower. The Crab pulsar, for instance, turns less than 0.0

The updated GWTC-5.0 catalog includes 161 recent gravitational-wave bursts from black hole collisions. Thanks to improved detector sensitivity, some signals are now record-breakingly clear, allowing for more precise measurements of black hole masses and stricter tests of relativity. The total number