NASA Is Making a Fifth State of Matter in Orbit

It’s sometimes easy to overlook the fact that the International Space Station (ISS) is a giant lab where scientists study ...

NASA’s Orbiting Quantum Lab Pushes Deeper Into the Unknown

The International Space Station is now home to an even more capable quantum laboratory, where NASA cools atoms to nearly ...

Plutonium compound unlocks rare topological quantum behavior with potential nuclear science applications

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at ...

Non-Hermitian geometry reveals when quantum amplification depends only on start and end points

In quantum mechanics, the geometry of quantum states has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding phenomena ranging ...