Why no two people ever see the same rainbow: The science behind this beautifaul illusion |
Whenever you spot a rainbow stretching across the sky after a monsoon shower, you think you’re seeing the…
Space-time holograms based on programmable metasurfaces
Zheng, G. et al. Metasurface holograms reaching 80% efficiency. Nat. Nanotechnol. 10, 308 (2015). Article Google Scholar Gopakumar,…
US: Scientists find Higgs mode in a semiconductor for the first time
Scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the US found an elusive type of vibration, called the…
Precise measurement of the absolute sky brightness at 60–350 MHz
GINAN receiver with advanced architecture The GINAN receiver implements a new architecture that dynamically self-calibrates for receiver noise…
David Kipping Has a New Take on the Existence of Advanced Life in the Universe… and the Numbers are Not Encouraging!
Between the mid-70s and early 80s, two physicists (Michael Hart and Frank Tipler) published a controversial series of…
On The Hunt For Cosmic Dawn And The Universe’s Very First Stars
After only four short years, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and observational cosmologists like Richard Ellis at…
23,000-pound magnet to power world’s most advanced fusion system
A massive magnet that crossed the Atlantic Ocean has brought one of America’s most ambitious fusion projects a…
Two-component exciton condensates in an electron–hole bilayer
Stamper-Kurn, D. M. & Ueda, M. Spinor Bose gases: symmetries, magnetism, and quantum dynamics. Rev. Mod. Phys. 85,…
In situ nanocrystal confinement for efficient blue perovskite LEDs
Ma, D. et al. Distribution control enables efficient reduced-dimensional perovskite LEDs. Nature 599, 594–598 (2021). Article ADS CAS …
Underground detector unveils first major findings about mysterious ghost particles
NEW YORK — A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe released…
AI and Physics Have More in Common Than You Might Think
There’s a reason that the boom of artificial intelligence is being referred to as a “brave new world”…
This Quantum Detector Boosts Terahertz Sensitivity by 20 Times
Detecting terahertz radiation using a quantum metasurface-based photoelectric tunable-step terahertz detector – a path to high-sensitivity imaging and…