A team of scientists from Japan has found that diamond is able to generate a dynamic unpolarized single-photon with intrinsic randomness, which will be useful for the quantum computing.
Every science fiction fan is familiar with the notion of parallel universes with the Star Trek series being one of the first to popularize the notion. However, thanks to the Large Hadron Collider, we may soon have proof that a parallel universe does, in fact, exist.
Laser physicists at Australian National University have constructed a tractor beam that can both repel and attract objects, like a sort of shield-tractor beam combo.