Ancient method makes gas-trapping glass easier to shape at lower heat
Scientists have found a way to make a new class of gas-trapping glass easier to manufacture by borrowing…
Stretching Diamonds Unlocks Powerful New Quantum Sensing Abilities
Computational modeling reveals how stretching and squeezing a diamond’s crystal lattice precisely tunes the dynamic quantum states of…
Field-resolved observation of exciton coherence in a van der Waals magnet
Strogatz, S. H. From Kuramoto to Crawford: exploring the onset of synchronization in populations of coupled oscillators. Phys.…
Why NASA Wants to Start a Fire on the Moon
Spherical flame experiment onboard the ISS. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center The vacuum of space is one of…
Fibrillar adhesion dynamics govern the timescales of nuclear mechano-response via the vimentin cytoskeleton
Cell culture, transfections and drug treatments Human TIFFs (a kind gift from J.I.) were cultured in high-glucose Dulbecco’s…
A quantum-coherent photon–emitter interface in the original telecom band
Wang, H., Ralph, T. C., Renema, J. J., Lu, C.-Y. & Pan, J.-W. Scalable photonic quantum technologies. Nat.…
Breakthrough Crystal Lets Scientists “Write” Nanoscale Patterns With Light
A 532-nm continuous-wave laser “sculpted” microscopic patterns onto a flake of As2S3, including a monochromatic portrait of Albert…
Scientists Create Strange Shape-Shifting Material
A close look at a free-standing arch made of crown-leg staples. Credit: CU Boulder A simple bundle of…
Transport of polaritons in hyperbolic media
Basov, D. N., Fogler, M. M. & García de Abajo, F. J. Polaritons in van der Waals materials.…
Orbital-hybridization-induced Ising-type superconductivity in a confined gallium layer
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All-van der Waals microcavities for low-loss nonlinear photonics
Geim, A. K. & Grigorieva, I. V. Van der Waals heterostructures. Nature 499, 419–425 (2013). Article CAS PubMed …
What causes odd light signals? Scientists finally crack mystery
Researchers at Rice University have identified why a widely studied organic semiconductor behaves unpredictably with light, resolving a…