Force-based reading and writing of individual single-atom magnets
Herein, we utilize holmium (Ho) adatoms on MgO as single-atom magnet, a system that is regarded as a…
We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
Thamires Lima, a research professor in chemical engineering at Drexel University, studies the properties of thick, viscous liquids…
An orbiting disco ball gave Einstein’s theory its most precise test yet
This final measured value came in incredibly close to Einstein’s general relativity predictions, carrying a tiny margin of…
Scientists achieve the impossible by creating matter from empty space
Something has been lurking in empty space, and for the first time, physicists may have caught it leaving…
Physicist Explains How to “Bend it Like Beckham”
It contributed to soccer legend David Beckham’s record number of goals on direct free kicks, and entered popular…
New study explains why some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise
Some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise, such as from ventilation systems, heat pumps, wind turbines and…
Meet Sabrina Pasterski: Stephen Hawking cited her, NASA wanted her, but she chose physics
Most children dream of flying a plane. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built one. By the time she was 14,…
Trying to break a photon would create a quantum mess
electron: A negatively charged particle, usually found orbiting the outer regions of an atom; also, the carrier of…
She Turned Down A $1.1 Million Offer, Meet The Physicist Compared To Einstein
When Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski was a teenager, she wasn’t just studying science – she was building an airplane,…
‘What we found was striking’: Physicists detect new kind of signal from a black hole’s ‘point of no return’
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Bose–Einstein condensate of ultracold sodium–rubidium molecules with tunable dipolar interactions
Carr, L. D., DeMille, D., Krems, R. V. & Ye, J. Cold and ultracold molecules: science, technology and…
Principles of optics in Fock space for the scalable manipulation of large quantum states
Maxwell, J. C. VIII. A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 155, 459–512…