Solar system may be masking a mysterious fifth force tied to dark energy
A new analysis has revealed that a force tied to dark energy could still be hiding in the…
Low-noise microwaves from free-running frequency combs and electrical feed-forward phase noise compensation
Krieger, G. & Younis, M. Impact of oscillator noise in bistatic and multistatic SAR. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens.…
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…
The World’s Longest-Running Experiment Is Still Teaching Us Physics
The simple experiment setup. Image via Wiki Commons. In 1927, physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a…
Giant transverse magnetic fluctuations at the edge of re-entrant superconductivity in UTe2
We first describe the experimental geometry and why the magnetotropic susceptibility is sensitive to the transverse magnetic susceptibility.…
Tunable symmetry breaking in a hexagonal-stacked moiré magnet
Song, T. et al. Direct visualization of magnetic domains and moiré magnetism in twisted 2D magnets. Science 374,…
Transdimensional anomalous Hall effect in rhombohedral thin graphite
Hall, E. On the possibility of transverse currents in ferromagnets. Philos. Mag 12, 157–172 (1881). Article Google Scholar …
Is the Earliest Supermassive Black Hole Mystery Solved?
One of the most intriguing puzzles in cosmology is the existence of supermassive black holes that seem to…
Digital quantum magnetism on a trapped-ion quantum computer
D’Alessio, L. & Rigol, M. Long-time behavior of isolated periodically driven interacting lattice systems. Phys. Rev. X 4,…
US makes room-temperature multiferroic for low-energy computing
Engineers at Rice University in the U.S. have developed a new room-temperature multiferroic material that shows a 10-fold…
Trapped particle inside an atom may reveal clues about mass
Scientists have detected a tiny particle becoming caught inside the core of an atom. The finding points to…
The Last Dance of a Dying Star
Our Sun is a patient rotator. Over its lifetime it has shed angular momentum steadily, swept away on…