It was World War II and scientists belonging to the Manhattan Project worked on calculations for the atomic bomb. Meanwhile, in one of the buildings, future Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was cracking the combination lock on a safe because doing so intrigued him. That’s as good a broad summary of Feynman as any: scientific integrity with curiosity driving both his work and his fun.

One step closer to computers that process data at the speed of light.

Inside a small laboratory in lush countryside about 50 miles north of New York City, an elaborate tangle of tubes and electronics dangles from the ceiling. This mess of equipment is a computer. Not just any computer, but one on the verge of passing what may, perhaps, go down as one of the most important milestones in the history of the field.

In terms of size, it may be the smallest scientific breakthrough ever made at Harvard.

La fusion nucléaire est une source d’énergie aussi prometteuse qu’elle est difficile à maîtriser sur Terre. Si la force gravitationnelle permet de créer les conditions extrêmes nécessaires à la fusion des noyaux d’hydrogène dans les étoiles, d’autres solutions doivent être imaginées sur Terre.

Le 11 février 2016 est une date qui restera gravée dans l’histoire de l’astronomie avec l’annonce officielle par les laboratoires LIGO et Virgo de la première observation directe d’une onde gravitationnelle. L’article publié dans la prestigieuse revue américaine Physical Review Letters présente la détection qui a été faite en septembre 2015 sur les deux sites américains jumeaux LIGO distants de 3 000 km.

Through hard work, ingenuity and a little cooperation from nature, scientists on the BASE experiment vastly improved their measurement of a property of protons and antiprotons.

Researchers at UNIGE have demonstrated the entanglement between 16 million atoms in a crystal crossed by a single photon, confirming the theory behind the quantum networks of the future