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…
What are dark galaxies? Astronomers expose 70 hidden candidates with no visible stars
Examples of the four categories used to classify HI sources: optical counterpart (O), nearby galaxy (N), unsure (X),…
A Cosmic Survey Reveals the Universe’s Hidden Side
A team of scientists at the University of Virginia is using data from an instrument in Arizona to…
Prototype ‘Camera’ Offers a New Way to Visualize Elusive Ghost Particles
Central to many unsolved mysteries in physics are tiny, weakly interacting particles that require heavy-lift detection methods. This…
Integrated photonics for continuous-variable quantum optics
Moody, G. et al. Roadmap on integrated quantum photonics. JPhys Photonics 4, 012501 (2022). Article ADS Google Scholar …
Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet
Ice comes in more forms than what you’ll find in a freezer or a glacier. Since 1900, scientists…
Scientists build magnet that erases its own magnetic field
Magnets are powerful, but they’re also noisy. Not in the way speakers are, but in the way they…
The particles in the early Universe painted a different picture
Today’s Standard Model describes our Universe’s particles and forces. Although there are many similarities and differences within the…
The missing piece in quantum computing
In today’s Finshots, we talk about Cisco’s breakthrough that might change quantum computing completely. But here’s a quick…
why we still cannot measure gravity
The latest effort to measure the strength of gravity has ended much as it began: with the force…
Black hole GW190521 may be a wormhole from another universe
For just one-tenth of a second in May 2019, the universe delivered a signal that did not fit…
Physicist Proposes Dark Matter Is Made of Black Holes That Survived Dead Universes
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