How Do Close Binary Stars Form?
Our Sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars…
Programmable skyrmions for communication and sensing
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A New “Quasi-1D” State of Matter Could Be Hiding Inside Ice Giant Planets
Despite outward appearances, the internal workings of ice giants like Uranus and Neptune are extremely chaotic. Pressures millions…
Dark Matter May Have Jump-Started Universe’s First Giant Black Holes
New research by astronomers from the University of California, Riverside, Sam Houston State University and the University of…
Researchers Demonstrate Ultra-low Noise Levels of New Qubit Platform
Insider Brief A new qubit platform developed at Argonne National Laboratory uses electrons trapped on solid neon and…
Dark matter may have formed from ripples in spacetime
Researchers have found that faint gravitational waves in the early Universe could have produced particles that later became…
The weirdness of quantum contextuality is not a bug – it’s a feature – Physics World
The weirdness of quantum contextuality is not a bug – it’s a feature – Physics World Skip to…
Finland And Australia to Join Forces on Quantum Technologies
Insider Brief VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and CSIRO are exploring collaboration through VTT’s Quantum Leap project…
Physicists dissect the mind-boggling properties of a strange quantum material
ISTA scientists examine a sample in the lab. Left to right: Ph.D. student and first author Valeska Zambra…
Charge-dependent spectral softenings of primary cosmic rays below the knee
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Fibrillar adhesion dynamics govern the timescales of nuclear mechano-response via the vimentin cytoskeleton
Cell culture, transfections and drug treatments Human TIFFs (a kind gift from J.I.) were cultured in high-glucose Dulbecco’s…
Giant transverse magnetic fluctuations at the edge of re-entrant superconductivity in UTe2
We first describe the experimental geometry and why the magnetotropic susceptibility is sensitive to the transverse magnetic susceptibility.…