Quantum researchers observe real-time switching of magnet in heart of single atom
Artist impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
Magnetic fields in infant universe may have been billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet
Credit: International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of…
Origin of fastest white dwarfs in the galaxy linked to supernova explosions
Illustration showing the remnant of a star being ejected at tremendous speed into space from the site of…
Genetic mechanism reveals how plants coordinate flowering with light and temperature conditions
Flowering Arabidopsis thaliana. Credit: Salk Institute Plants may be stuck in one place, but the world around them…
TESS reveals two rocky Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting nearby K-type star
TESS target pixel file for TOI-2322 for sector 27. The target star is labeled as 1 and marked…
Quantum ‘curvature’ warps electron flow, hinting at new electronics possibilities
Optical image of two patterned Hall bar devices oriented along orthogonal directions on the SrTiO3 surface. The green…
Massive stars in metal-poor environment often have close partners, scientists discover
Massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Of the stars studied, seventy percent (the red diamonds) appear to…
How NASA made exoplanets into tourist destinations
“Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Kepler-16b is a gas…
Rare oceanic plate delamination may explain Portugal’s mysterious earthquakes
A delaminating block could reproduce the structure observed in the tomography model. The serpentinized layer decouples the crustal…
Habitable planet potential increases in the outer galaxy
Longstanding model of the galactic habitable zone, which is estimated to exist between 7-9 kiloparsecs from the center…
Radio emission observations reveal delayed outflow from a tidal disruption event
Radio light curves of WTP 14adeqka in selected frequencies from archival and targeted VLA observations (main panel) along…
Quantum entanglement lasts 600 times longer in elusive dark states, study finds
Cavity coupled QDs and detuning. a A schematic of an air-suspended hole-CBG cavity in InAs/GaAs membrane and photon…