Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/31
Tushna Commissariat
From building hybrid architectures to tackling complex fundamental questions, quantum physicist Mauro Paternostro outlines the vast potential on offer from the quantum technology landscape.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/01
Researchers at Georgia Tech in the US have found that cicadas are the smallest animal to create a jet of urine.
美国佐治亚理工学院的研究人员发现,蝉是能喷射尿液的最小动物。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/37
Ian Randall
How well do you know your quantum physics? Find out with this fun, cryptic word search, created by Ian Randall. All answers are hidden in the grid vertically, horizontally or diagonally, with no letters skipped.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/27
David Pye
A response to Laura Hiscott’s March Lateral Thoughts article, which described how the tiny mirrors on a disco ball act like pinhead mirrors, allowing us to view multiple reflected images of the Sun.
这篇文章描述了迪斯科球上的小镜子如何像针头镜一样,让我们看到太阳的多个反射图像。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/15
Michael Banks
Scientists and engineers have announced the completion of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) – the largest camera ever built.
科学家和工程师们宣布,有史以来最大的照相机--时空遗留巡天照相机(LSST)已经完工。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/24
Brian Gray
A response to the February feature by Robert P Crease about the Reed Research Reactor, which is unique in being the only nuclear reactor in the US run by undergraduate students.
回应罗伯特-P-克雷斯(Robert P Crease)二月份关于里德研究反应堆的专题报道,该反应堆是美国唯一一个由本科生管理的核反应堆。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/19
Michael Banks
Brazil has become the first country from the Americas to join the CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva.
巴西成为第一个加入日内瓦附近欧洲核子研究中心粒子物理实验室的美洲国家。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/23
Robert P Crease, Jennifer Carter, Gino Elia
“Wigner’s friend” is a curious thought experiment that has stumped physicists and philosophers for more than 60 years. Robert P Crease, Jennifer Carter and Gino Elia advise on how to resolve this conundrum.
"维格纳之友 "是一个奇怪的思想实验,60 多年来一直困扰着物理学家和哲学家。罗伯特-克雷斯(Robert P Crease)、詹妮弗-卡特(Jennifer Carter)和吉诺-埃利亚(Gino Elia)就如何解决这一难题提出了建议。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/37/05/14
Peter Gwynne
X-ray astronomers in the US have begun a campaign to save the Chandra X-ray Observatory from budget cuts that would effectively end the mission.
美国的 X 射线天文学家们已经开始了一场运动,以挽救钱德拉 X 射线天文台,使其免于预算削减,因为预算削减实际上将终结该天文台的任务。
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