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Entangled photons that travel in corkscrew paths have resulted in holograms that offer the possibility of dense and ultrasecure data encryption, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review Letters.

Scientists, including members of the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life, are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings.

The Simons Foundation is providing annual grants to the country’s chemists, biologists, physicists and mathematicians. These funds are meant to help sustain hundreds of Ukrainian scientists whose work was disrupted when Russia invaded their country last year.

The physics community has begun to consider what they want to do next, and why. That is the mandate of a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, called Elementary Particle Physics: Progress and Promise.

Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Matteo Cantiello weighs in on recent research that finds magnetic fields and turbulence amplify each other inside stars’ hidden layers, slowing down the stellar cores’ spin.

Astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators have announced the discovery of two active supermassive black holes close to Earth.

New research from scientists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators offers hope that magnons could be used to construct more sustainable technology in the long term.

For the first time, scientists have observed quantum interference — a wavelike interaction between particles related to the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement — occurring between two different kinds of particles. The discovery could help physicists understand what goes on inside an atomic nucleus.

Using the giant Virgo interferometer in Tuscany, researchers are recording gravitational waves created by interstellar cataclysms as they wash through our planet.

Companies are moving away from setting qubit records in favor of practical hardware and long-term goals.