Scientists propose a light-matter quantum state inside living cells
Researchers report an unexplained 71-terahertz vibration in living cells, mouse tissues and isolated mitochondria that disappears when mitochondrial…
Physicists convert microwaves to light helping quantum computers communicate over optical networks
A layered magnetic semiconductor called CrSBr converted microwave-driven magnetic excitations into coherent optical signals across a bandwidth of…
Stanford physicists observe a quantum jump of sound for the first time
Stanford researchers have directly tracked a single quantum of mechanical vibration, or phonon, abruptly disappearing from a microscopic…
Genetic ‘barcodes’ could explain why chromosomes recognize one another
Repetitive satellite DNA in fruit flies appears to act like a chromosome-specific barcode, helping matching chromosome pairs find…
Greenland and Antarctica have lost more than 11 trillion tons of ice since 1979
Greenland and Antarctica lost about 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice between 1979 and 2023, raising global sea…
New physics explains how odor changes on its journey through the air
Turbulent air changes odor signals before they reach an animal, filtering some frequencies, spreading others, and creating new…
Physicists find Einstein’s ‘spooky’ quantum effect inside Higgs boson decays
ATLAS physicists found strong evidence that pairs of massive Z bosons produced in Higgs decays emerge with entangled…
Supercomputer simulations may finally explain Webb’s mysterious Little Red Dots
Simulations suggest many of JWST’s Little Red Dots could be rapidly growing black holes surrounded by extraordinarily dense…
Gold nanostars make voltage-sensing proteins brighter and several times faster
Gold nanostars positioned near engineered voltage-sensing proteins made their fluorescence brighter and their electrical responses several times faster…
Hunga Tonga’s record-breaking eruption removed 900 metric tons of methane per day
Satellite observations indicate that the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption plume destroyed about 900 ± 220 metric tons of…
ETH Zurich physicists built an ‘atomic cannon’ to put Einstein’s theory of gravity to the test
Physicists at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute have created a narrow, cold-like beam of muonium, an…
CERN recreates cosmic ray collisions to reveal what happens when space particles hit Earth
Physicists at CERN have directly measured proton-oxygen collisions at 9.62 TeV per nucleon pair, closely recreating an important…