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…
Controlled angular correlations and polarization speckle in scattering birefringent films
A transverse spatially random monochromatic electric field vector, E(r,t), is composed of two mutually orthogonal polarization components \(\mathrm…
Framework models light-matter interactions in nonlinear optical microscopy to determine atomic structure
From left to right, Albert Suceava, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering; Venkatraman Gopalan, a professor…
Impact of rotating cylinders configurations on Cu-water nanofluid heat transfer in a vented cavity: a COMSOL multiphysics base study
This section presents the numerical results for the streamlines and isotherms to evaluate the influence of rotating cylinders…
Generation of harmful slow electrons in water is a race between intermolecular energy decay and proton transfer
Schematic representation of intermolecular coulombic decay and proton transfer in liquid water. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61912-w…