Margaret Harris

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The Mars rover Perseverance has captured the first image of an aurora as seen from the surface of another planet. The visible-light image, which was taken during a solar storm on 18 March 2024, is not as detailed or as colourful as the high-resolution photos of green swirls, blue shadows and pink whorls familiar to aurora aficionados on Earth.

1 month ago | physicsworld.com | Margaret Harris

Hannah Earley is the chief technical officer and co-founder of Vaire Computing Vaire Computing is a start-up seeking to commercialize computer chips based on the principles of reversible computing – a topic Earley studied during her PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge, UK. The central idea behind reversible computing is that reversible operations use much less energy, and thus generate much less waste heat, than those in conventional computers. In...

1 month ago | physicsworld.com | Margaret Harris

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverageFor the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, Physics World is shining a spotlight on quantum effects so “weird” they make superposition and entanglement seem almost ordinary.

2 months ago | physicsworld.com | Margaret Harris

Jim Gates talks to Margaret Harris about the discoveries he can tick off his “theorist’s bucket list”, adds some new ones, and delves into the state of science and society in the US today In 2014 the American mathematical physicist S James Gates Jr shared his “theorist’s bucket list” of physics discoveries he would like to see happen before, as he puts it, he “shuffles off this mortal coil”. A decade later, Physics World’s Margaret Harris caught up once more with Gates, who is now at the...