Quarter- and half-filled quantum Hall states and their topological orders revealed by daughter states in bilayer graphene
Our devices (device 1 and device 2) consist of BLG encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and graphite…
Breakthrough acoustic shield cancels noise without airflow loss
A new innovation from Boston University’s Zhang Lab could reshape how we manage noise in the modern world.…
Frustrated electron hopping from the orbital configuration in a two-dimensional lattice
Stewart, G. R. Heavy-fermion systems. Rev. Mod. Phys. 56, 755–787 (1984). ADS Google Scholar Bergman, D. L., Wu,…
An Astrophysicist Proposes We Send a Spacecraft to Visit a Black Hole : ScienceAlert
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe – a reputation not helped by…
Neither light nor heat… but radiation
If I ask you to tell me what comes to your mind when I tell you the word…
Two bold dark matter theories could reveal the universe’s missing mass
Two fresh ideas are giving scientists new ways to think about how the universe’s hidden mass came to…
Dwarf Galaxies Like the Magellanic Clouds Have Their Own Small Satellite Galaxies
Understanding the growth and evolution of galaxies is a critical part of cosmology. We know that massive galaxies…
Two New Dark Matter Origin Theories Point To A Hidden Reality And The Universe’s Edge
Dark matter is a hypothetical substance that outweighs regular matter (which makes up us and everything we can…
Cloud–cloud collision sparks active star formation in Milky Way
The distribution of the two colliding molecular clouds (with blue and red indicating the blue-shifted and red-shifted clouds,…
Scientists Crack Code Behind Quantum Entanglement, At Least In Theory
3D-rendering of quantum entanglement. (Image by Vink Fan on Shutterstock) New mathematical breakthrough reveals entanglement follows universal laws…
Quantum physics protects videos from prying eyes and tampering
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed…
Threshold effects enable self-stopping robot swarms
A bunch of microrobots scurrying around at the Institute of Theoretical Physics II of the Heinrich Heine University…