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Europe Will Power the Flight of the Next Man and First Woman to the Moon
The dark, silver desert longs for the pressure of our feet again. The Artemis program aims for this next big step for humanity, not to visit, but to stay on the Moon. The six Artemis missions consist...
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Astronomy May Have Influenced Ancient Human Species and Gave Rise to the Homo...
Early humans appeared in Africa about three million years ago. During the Pleistocene Era (from 2.6 million to 11 thousand years ago), major changes in human species occurred: they went from staying...
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Quantum Mechanics Might Be Responsible for Mutations
In living beings, the information to build proteins, and therefore tissue and organs is coded in a sequence of molecules —nicknamed with the letters A T C G— in the DNA. This code is tremendously...
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Betelgeuse’s Great Dimming Explained Using Weather Satellite as Space Telescope
Whenever we take a moment to gaze at the stars, we recognize Orion quickly. Most of the stars shaping the Greek hunter’s constellation shine so intensely that light pollution has not diminished them...
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Empowering Atoms to Understand Themselves
To understand processes essential for life, such as molecular recognition, gene transcription and translation, and DNA repair, quantum mechanics is unavoidable. That is also the case for new materials...
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James Webb’s Depp Field, A Colorful Time Tunnel
In the beginning—about 400,000 years after the Big Bang— darkness was upon the face of the deep. The light was trapped inside the neutral atoms and molecules, mostly hydrogen, helium, and a pinch of...
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European Jupiter ICy Moons Explorer: Our Next Adventure to Jupiter and Its...
Imagine extraterrestrial micro monsters swimming, growing, and reproducing in an immense ocean of liquid water, trapped under an ice crust. This may sound like science fiction, but this could be...
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Predicting toxicity with qubits
In our daily lives, we are exposed to a myriad of chemicals in the environment and goods, such as food, toiletry products, and plastic containers. Despite constant institutional efforts, laboratories...
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Simulating phases of matter in magnetic materials with qubits
Investigating the collective behavior of atoms or molecules leading to phases of matter is crucial to understand phenomena such as magnetization, superfluidity, and superconductivity. The laws of...
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Quantum Algorithm Tested on a Commercial Quantum Device Can Help Discover Drugs
PASQAL has successfully implemented for the first time an algorithm on a commercial neutral atoms quantum device to tackle a critical molecular biology problem in drug discovery. This project has been...
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