New Quantum Radar Can Be Made As Small As A Die Thanks To Giant Atoms
When you think of radar, you probably think of large rotating military antennae and a green screen with…
Astronomers catch supermassive black hole in the act of ‘waking up’
Top panel: the cluster of galaxies (white/violet) and its hot gaseous atmosphere (blue); bottom right panel: NSF VLBA…
Massive magnets are on the move: Repurposing electromagnets for research
Left to right: The BaBar solenoid magnet at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory before its move to Brookhaven. (SLAC)…
Ultrafast Levitation Achieved in New Frictionless Device Developed by Japanese Researchers
A new method for achieving ultrafast, frictionless levitation has been developed by Japanese researchers at Yokohama National University,…
Schrodinger’s Cat: The man behind the thought experiment that questioned reality
A cat is in a sealed box. It is both alive and dead, at least until you open…
Next-level pixel-particle analogy uses quantum-inspired math to clarify noisy medical images
A medical image denoising method based on principles of quantum mechanics outperform machine learning, statistical methods, and neural…
‘Pop III.1’ model explains origins of black holes and early cosmic ionization
Computer simulation of the ionized bubble around a Population III.1 supermassive star, progenitor of a supermassive black hole,…
Researchers discover all-new antifungal drug candidate in campus greenhouse
The fungal pathogen Candida albicans under attack by a new drug candidate discovered at McMaster University. The new…
Structure and flow of low-dimensional water
Rousseau, D. L. & Porto, S. Polywater: polymer or artifact? Science 167, 1715–1719 (1970). ADS Google Scholar Derjaguin,…
Fractional computing | Nature Physics
We highlight how an abstract piece of condensed-matter physics — the fractional quantum Hall effect — may be…
Scientists find 74-million-year-old mammal fossil in Chile
This illustration by Mauricio Alvarez depicts ‘Yeutherium pressor,’ a tiny mammal that lived in the time of the…
Atomic-scale visualization of strain-tailored noncollinear spin textures in an antiferromagnetic ultrathin film
Growth of Mn atomic bilayer on Ag(111) Figure 1a represents the STM topographic overview of 1.0 ± 0.1 atomic layers of…