Federal proposal limiting foreign scientists at Boulder lab disrupts Colorado’s quantum industry
Spun out of a federal lab in Boulder four years ago, Icarus Quantum is doing exactly what the…
This Tiny Glass Square Could Store 2 Million Books of Data For 10,000 Years : ScienceAlert
Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading…
Statistical localization of U(1) lattice gauge theory in a Rydberg simulator
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How Supermassive Black Holes Stifle Star Formation In Neighbouring Galaxies
Astronomers know that supermassive black holes (SMBH) can inhibit star formation. These behemoths, which seem to be present…
A spinning gyroscope could finally unlock ocean wave energy
Ocean waves represent one of the largest and most consistent sources of renewable energy on Earth. Despite their…
Scientists Detect Particles in Another Dimension, And Physics May Never Be the Same
The research, presented in two papers in Physical Review A, describes adjustable exchange statistics and a method to…
Higher-dimensional Fermiology in bulk moiré metals
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Faint ‘ghost galaxy’ may be 99% dark matter
Today’s Image of the Day from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a galaxy that barely exists in…
This Galaxy Is 99% Dark Matter—and Basically Invisible
Dark matter doesn’t emit, absorb, or reflect light. It’s invisible but supposedly makes up 85% of the universe’s…
An exciton crystal in a moiré excitonic insulator
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Half-ton magnet aces world-first 1.8 million°F fusion plasma confinement
A 0.5-tonne superconducting magnet recently hovered silently inside a 5-meter-wide vacuum chamber, which marked a major milestone for…
X-Ray Blaze Could Be First Glimpse of a Black Hole Shredding a White Dwarf : ScienceAlert
A burst of X-rays from 8 billion years ago may be the first clear evidence of a white…