Senior thesis spotlight: A scholarly look at black holes and relativity by a student whose other universe is jazz
When Sophia Varughese came to Princeton, she expected to major in economics and minor in music performance so…
Schrödinger’s anthill: Quantum entanglement detected inside a centimeter-sized strange metal
A strange metal can fit in your hand, yet still behave in ways that seem to belong to…
The Map of Physics: Animation Shows How All the Different Fields in Physics Fit Together
From Newton’s mechanical calculations to Einstein’s general and special relativity to the baffling indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, the…
Strong coupling of a microwave photon to an electron on helium
Platzman, P. M. & Dykman, M. I. Quantum computing with electrons floating on liquid helium. Science 284, 1967–1969…
Mysterious cosmic particle may reveal where the universe’s most extreme rays are born
For decades, physicists assumed the universe’s most powerful particles stopped at iron. Anything heavier would shatter crossing the…
LHCb discovers the final missing member of a doubly charmed particle family – Home
The LHCb Collaboration has found a new particle consisting of one strange quark and two charm quarks. With…
Nanoscale strain wave generation by a piezoelectric grating from polar vortices
Sekhar, M. C. et al. A review on piezoelectric materials and their applications. Cryst. Res. Technol. 58, 2200130…
Scientists Say a New Universe Could Form Inside a Dying Star
An expanding mini-universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar. Credit: Daniel…
How Flocking Birds “Defy” One of Physics’ Most Fundamental Laws
Flocks of birds, bacteria and tissue cells: in some collective systems, the individual elements respond to only part…
Swiss Research Shows That Quantum Physics Generates Randomness
The project, conducted at ETH Zurich, involved two connected cryostats that cooled superconducting units called qubits, which behave…
Optical metasurfaces for general vision processing on the edge
Shanahan, M., McDonell, K. & Reynolds, L. Role play with large language models. Nature 623, 493–498 (2023). Article …
Canadian Researchers Reduce Quantum Turbulence with StimPDC- EE Times
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