Physics

16+ hour, 4+ min ago   (278+ words) Non-physicists might hear of 'the Hall effect' and think it relates to the way time elongates when trying to get young children out of the front door, or the phenomenon where you always forget your keys or phone as you…...

3+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1031+ words) Home > Opinion > Why Blockchain’s Quantum Defense May Already Be Hidden in Mathematics The discussion about quantum threat in the crypto sector has moved beyond speculation. Migration to post-quantum cryptography does not require discovery of new mathematical structures. It requires coordinated…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (252+ words) Biomechanics is the scientific study of the mechanics of living structures, or of non-living structures such as silk or nacre that are produced by organisms. The recently extinct thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator and famously likened to dog-family carnivorans…...

33+ min ago   (54+ words) X-ray imaging has long promised a tantalizing goal: the ability to peer inside intact, three-dimensional objects at nanometre resolution without slicing, staining, or otherwise destroying them. A newly reported advance in lensless holotomography moves that promise substantially closer to routine…...

6+ hour, 24+ min ago   (356+ words) Most ransomware tools stop at detection. Most Bitcoin forks stop at marketing. This post is about neither — it's about building a Bitcoin whose signatures survive Shor's algorithm, and what "fair launch" means when you actually mean it. The first coinbase…...

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (686+ words) In the strange world of one-dimensional quantum magnets, the elementary carriers of magnetism refuse to behave like ordinary particles. In most three-dimensional magnets, a disturbance of the magnetic order propagates as a magnon, a well-defined wave carrying a single unit…...

12+ hour, 19+ min ago   (353+ words) Recently, twisted bilayer photonic crystals (TBPhCs) have been used as moiré-based optical platforms, supporting twist-tunable chiroptical and polarization-dependent responses. A periodic moiré supercell exists only for commensurate twist angles, whereas conventional supercell approaches are not directly applicable to incommensurate structures....

9+ hour, 34+ min ago   (265+ words) Non-Commutative Cosmology (Sun #78) We grow up believing space is an infinitely smooth canvas. A metre can be divided into centimetres, then millimetres, then smaller …...

14+ hour, 39+ min ago   (1310+ words) Ethereum has set a December 2029 target for a quantum-resistant Layer 1 while moving Frame Transactions toward Hegotá and developing execution proofs, privacy tools and a new consensus design. As crypto.news reported in its coverage of the roadmap, Ethereum’s 2029 plan now…...

14+ hour, 46+ min ago   (1103+ words) A superconducting qubit followed a nanomechanical resonator from its one-phonon state to the ground state, revealing a discrete jump while also exposing the readout's own back-action. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 20, 2026 · How we edit A ringing…...