Liora Vancek
Liora is a writer and editor covering tech and the future of work. Her articles blend sharp analysis with a conversational style that makes complex ideas feel human. She's written extensively about emerging tech and how innovation shapes everyday life. When she’s not online, you’ll find her reading science fiction or playing video games.
Scientists Made a New State of Matter Inside a Quantum Computer, Then Braided It
Here’s a sentence that shouldn’t be possible: a team of physicists took the qubits inside a quantum computer, coaxed them...
This Entangled State Shrugs Off the Fiber Noise Everyone Else Fights
Sending entanglement down an optical fiber is normally a nightmare of babysitting. Fiber gets warm, gets bent, gets nudged, and...
A New Material Sorts Light by Something Weirder Than Color
Every light filter you’ve ever met sorts by the obvious stuff. Sunglasses cut glare by polarization. A red gel on...
A Superconductor Everyone Thought They Understood Was Secretly a Duet
Superconductors are the show-offs of materials science. Cool one down far enough and it carries electricity with zero loss, electrons...
A Berkeley Quantum Chip Just Got a 250-Year Assignment: Stay Buried
Somewhere under Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, sealed since June and not to be reopened until 2276, there is...
In These Flat Crystals, Light and Magnetism Finally Talk to Each Other
Say two coworkers share an office for years and never once speak. Light does its job, magnetism does its job,...
Turns Out Quantum Mechanics Might Not Need Its Imaginary Numbers
Somewhere in high school, a teacher told you imaginary numbers were real, actually, and that physics couldn’t function without them....
Google’s Quantum Computer Learns From Its Mistakes Without Clocking Out
Say there was a race car that retunes its own engine mid-lap, using the exact skid marks it just left...
A Quantum Computer’s Only Job Here Was to Roll Weirder Dice
Say you hand two chefs the same recipe and the same kitchen, but you give each of them a different...
Your Next Quantum Computer Might Remember Things by Humming
What if there was a computer that stores your data by making a tiny object physically shake. You give it...