Researchers have announced that they have produced what is called a “time crystal” using the qubits in Google’s Sycamore quantum computer, a breakthrough that means that stable qubits can be built to power insanely fast quantum computers in the future. While the term “time crystal” might evoke images of quartz-likeread more
A new study has found that global warming has caused an “almost complete loss of stability” in the network of currents that weave their way through the North Atlantic Ocean, a series of currents that, if they were to collapse entirely, would result in a domino effect of systemic climateread more
Harvard University’s Astronomy Department has launched a new SETI initiative called The Galileo Project. But instead of looking to the stars for signs of intelligent life, the project will look for potential extraterrestrial artifacts in our own Solar System—and even in the skies of Earth itself. In 2017 a highlyread more
The discovery of the fossils of a sponge-like creature that dates back to 890 million years ago suggests that simple animals appeared on Earth nearly 350 million years before the oldest known fossilized specimens first appeared in the Earth’s oceans. While the previously oldest known animal fossils, also in theread more