Physicists rewrite 200-year-old principle to unlock atomic engines
A research team in Germany has achieved a stunning theoretical breakthrough that could reshape one of physics’ oldest…
COMSOL Multiphysics Improves Battery and Grid Designs
A prototyping problem is emerging in today’s efforts to electrify everything. What works as a lab-bench mockup breaks…
Piezo1 regulates the mechanotransduction of soft matrix viscoelasticity
Cell response to matrix viscoelasticity is stiffness- and Piezo1-dependent Two different hydrogel pairs were synthesised by mixing different…
Optically-biased Rydberg microwave receiver enabled by hybrid nonlinear interferometry
Comparison between superhet and optical-bias MW detection setupsConventional Rydberg superhet Let us start by recalling the standard atomic…
How Black Holes Produce Powerful Relativistic Jets
It is an established scientific fact that most galaxies in the Universe have a supermassive black hole (SMBH)…
Sean Carroll: Can we ever escape the logic of a clockwork universe?
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German Scientists Transmit Single Photons From a Plane to Earth for Ultra-Secure Communication
IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 German researchers successfully transmitted individual photons from a moving aircraft to a ground station.…
Radical-enhanced photo-activated ultralong organic phosphorescence
Photophysical properties of the guests in crystal Three compounds r-MOP, s-MOP, and MOP were designed as the guests,…
World’s most powerful nuclear fusion experiment sets new record
Wendelstein 7-X in Greifswald, Germany, the largest stellarator, has set a new high bar for sustained fusion performance.…
Experimental observation of a time rondeau crystal
Setup Experiments here used a single crystal diamond with ~1-ppm NV centres and natural abundance (1.1%) of 13C…
The Promise of Cat Qubits
Managing Editor’s Note: Continuing with Quantum Week here at Brownstone Research, today, Jeff dives into the sensitivity of…
Amplifying collective light emission with atomic interactions
Visualization of atoms placed in an optical cavity, interacting with each other as well as with the light…