AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer
Quantum computing qubits are arranged in a grid in this artist’s illustration.Credit: Getty Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are…
Natural allelic variation in SW14 determines seed weight and quality in soybean
Plant materials and growth conditions The 320 previously sequenced accessions16 utilized for GWAS, and an F2 population (n = 280)…
Unidirectional perfect absorption induced by chiral coupling in spin-momentum locked waveguide magnonics
Lodahl, P. et al. Chiral quantum optics. Nature 541, 473 (2017). ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Hentschel, M.,…
Spouses tend to share psychiatric disorders, massive study finds
Spouses are more likely to share psychiatric conditions than to have different ones.Credit: Dmitrii Marchenko/Getty People with a…
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Researchers and academics have flocked to Bluesky. Credit: Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Posts about research on Bluesky…
Attosecond control and measurement of chiral photoionization dynamics
Chirality is traditionally viewed as a structural property of matter. The spatial arrangement of atoms in molecules and…
Next-generation graph computing with electric current-based and quantum-inspired approaches
Graph computing theory When modeling a space or circumstance in a graph, nodes represent each entity, and edges…
Mechanical confinement governs phenotypic plasticity in melanoma
Zebrafish husbandry Stable transgenic zebrafish lines were kept at 28.5 °C in a dedicated aquatics facility with a 14 h…
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps
Sample collection Human developmental stages E45–E72 were obtained from first-trimester termination procedures conducted at the Birth Defects Research…
Ultrafast decoupling of polarization and strain in ferroelectric BaTiO3
Photoinduced structural dynamics Our sample consists of a coherently strained, monodomain BaTiO3 (BTO) thin film, grown on a…
How did life get multicellular? Five simple organisms could have the answer
For some three billion years, unicellular organisms ruled Earth. Then, around one billion years ago, a new chapter…
Experimental confirmation of secondary flows within granular media
Experimental setup The experimental flume is divided into three sections: a reservoir to supply incoming grains, the flow…