Laser mode braiding on a chip
Adams, C. C. The Knot Book (American Mathematical Society, 2004). Yang, Y. et al. Non-abelian physics in light…
Scalable generation of massive Schrödinger cat states via quantum tunnelling
Feynman, R. P. The Role of Gravitation in Physics: Report from the 1957 Chapel Hill Conference Vol. 5…
Correlated insulator in the kagome flat band of a two-dimensional electrostatic crystal
A key challenge in condensed-matter physics is understanding strongly interacting quantum systems where many-body correlated states such as…
Atmospheric warming contributions from airborne microplastics and nanoplastics
Thompson, R. C. et al. Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned?. Science 386, 6720 (2024).…
NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview
NASA and SpaceX are targeting a mid-May launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. Loaded with about 6,500 pounds…
Fourier ptychography sharpens terahertz imaging
Imaging in the terahertz (THz) spectral range is a valuable screening tool. However, the quality of sources, detectors…
Next-generation probiotics: an outlook into current applications and future developments
Hill, C. et al. The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and…
NASA Fuel Cell Tests Pave Way for Energy Storage on Moon
With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of…
A metropolitan-scale multiplexed quantum repeater with Bell non-locality
Briegel, H. J., Dür, W., Cirac, J. I. & Zoller, P. Quantum repeaters: the role of imperfect local…
Gravitational-wave constraints on the pair-instability mass gap and nuclear burning in massive stars
Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes have opened a new window onto massive-star evolution1,2,3,4,5, but population inferences remain…
NASA’s Simulated Mars Mission Marks 200 Days Inside Habitat
The four crew members of NASA’s Mars simulation recently marked 200 days into their 378-day Red Planet mission…
CIGaRS I: combined simulation-based inference from type Ia supernovae and host photometry
Unified forward modelling of galaxies and type Ia supernovae CIGaRS is a unified forward model for type Ia…