Space & Physics: First-ever antimatter quantum bit

View in web browser

July 31—This week, we're covering Earth's ever-changing spin, the creation of the first-ever antimatter qubit, the mystery of interstellar meteors, and much more. Enjoy! —Lee Billings, Senior Editor, Space and Physics

Top Stories

First-Ever Antimatter Qubit Could Help Crack Cosmic Mysteries The first antimatter qubit will help search for differences between matter and antimatter Clara Moskowitz

We Just Discovered the Sounds of Spacetime. Let's Keep Listening Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science Lieke van Son

The Sky Is Falling—From Another Star Astronomers think small space rocks from beyond our solar system routinely strike Earth—but proving it isn't easy Phil Plait

Hurricane Forecasters Keep Crucial Satellite Data Online after Threatened Cuts Microwave satellite data that are key to capturing changes in a hurricane's strength will not be taken from meteorologists as originally planned Andrea Thompson

Dive into all things space and physics with a subscription to Scientific American.

'Arsenic Life' Microbe Study Retracted after 15 Years of Controversy A controversial arsenic microbe study unveiled 15 years ago has been retracted. The study's authors are crying foul Dan Vergano

The Surprising Math and Physics behind the 2026 World Cup Soccer Ball Here's how the new tetrahedron-based design for the "Trionda" soccer ball may affect next year's big game Emma R. Hasson

U.S. Nuclear Energy Plans Could Proliferate Weapons The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic terrorism or even nuclear war results Alan J. Kuperman

The Impossible Problems Hidden in a Simple Game of Tetris How complex can a simple game be? Tetris pushes even supercomputers to their limits and amazes mathematicians Manon Bischoff

515-Mile-Long Lightning Megaflash Sets New World Record A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ever measured, according to the World Meteorological Organization Emma R. Hasson

What We're Reading

A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology | Ars Technica UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years | BBC Little red dot galaxies have now been found in our local universe | New Scientist

From the Archive

Hardy Microbes Hint at Possibilities for Extraterrestrial Life Studies of extreme ecosystems on Earth can guide the search for Martian life and may reveal the fundamental limits of biology Brianne Palmer

Subscribe to this and all of our newsletters here. Scientific American One New York Plaza, New York, NY, 10004 Support our mission, subscribe to Scientific American here Unsubscribe  |  Preferences Privacy Policy  |  Contact Us